2 Kings 15:35

Bible in Basic English (1941)

But he did not take away the high places, and the people still went on making offerings and burning them in the high places. He was the builder of the higher doorway of the house of the Lord.

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  • 2 Kgs 12:3 : 3 But the high places were not taken away; the people went on making offerings and burning them in the high places.
  • 2 Chr 23:20 : 20 Then he took the captains of hundreds and the chiefs and the rulers of the people and all the people of the land, and they came down with the king from the house of the Lord through the higher doorway into the king's house, and put the king on the seat of the kingdom.
  • 2 Chr 27:3-9 : 3 He put up the higher doorway of the house of the Lord, and did much building on the wall of the Ophel. 4 In addition, he made towns in the hill-country of Judah, and strong buildings and towers in the woodlands. 5 He went to war with the king of the children of Ammon and overcame them. That year, the children of Ammon gave him a hundred talents of silver, and ten thousand measures of grain and ten thousand measures of barley. And the children of Ammon gave him the same amount the second year and the third. 6 So Jotham became strong, because in all his ways he made the Lord his guide. 7 Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all his wars and his ways, are recorded in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah. 8 He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he was ruling in Jerusalem for sixteen years. 9 And Jotham went to rest with his fathers, and they put his body into the earth in the town of David; and Ahaz his son became king in his place.
  • 2 Chr 32:12 : 12 Has not this same Hezekiah taken away his high places and his altars, saying to Judah and Jerusalem, Give worship before one altar only, burning offerings on it?
  • 2 Kgs 15:4 : 4 But he did not take away the high places, and the people still went on making offerings and burning them in the high places.
  • 2 Kgs 18:4 : 4 He had the high places taken away, and the stone pillars broken to bits, and the Asherah cut down; and the brass snake which Moses had made was crushed to powder at his order, because in those days the children of Israel had offerings burned before it, and he gave it the name Nehushtan.

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  • 2 Kgs 15:3-5
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    3And he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, as his father Amaziah had done.

    4But he did not take away the high places, and the people still went on making offerings and burning them in the high places.

    5And the Lord sent disease on the king and he became a leper, and to the day of his death he was living separately in his private house. And Jotham his son was over his house, judging the people of the land.

  • 2 Kgs 14:3-4
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    84%

    3He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, though not like David his father; he did as Joash his father had done.

    4But still the high places were not taken away; the people went on making offerings and burning them in the high places.

  • 2 Kgs 12:3
    84%

    3But the high places were not taken away; the people went on making offerings and burning them in the high places.

  • 2 Chr 27:2-3
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    2He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, as his father Uzziah had done; but he did not go into the Temple of the Lord. And the people still went on in their evil ways.

    3He put up the higher doorway of the house of the Lord, and did much building on the wall of the Ophel.

  • 2 Kgs 15:36
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    36Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all he did, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Judah?

  • 2 Chr 20:33
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    33The high places, however, were not taken away, and the hearts of the people were still not true to the God of their fathers.

  • 2 Chr 33:15-17
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    15He took away the strange gods and the image out of the house of the Lord, and all the altars he had put up on the hill of the Lord's house and in Jerusalem, and put them out of the town.

    16And he put the altar of the Lord in order, offering peace-offerings and praise-offerings on it, and said that all Judah were to be servants of the Lord, the God of Israel.

    17However, the people still made offerings in the high places, but only to the Lord their God.

  • 1 Kgs 22:43
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    43He did as Asa his father had done, not turning away from it, but doing what was right in the eyes of the Lord; but the high places were not taken away: the people went on making offerings and burning them in the high places.

  • 2 Kgs 15:34
    75%

    34And he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, as his father Uzziah had done.

  • 2 Chr 17:6
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    6His heart was lifted up in the ways of the Lord; and he went so far as to take away the high places and the wood pillars out of Judah.

  • 2 Chr 33:3-5
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    3For he put up again the high places which had been pulled down by his father Hezekiah; and he made altars for the Baals, and pillars of wood, and was a worshipper and servant of all the stars of heaven;

    4And he made altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, In Jerusalem will my name be for ever.

    5And he made altars for all the stars of heaven in the two outer squares of the house of the Lord.

  • 1 Kgs 3:2
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    2But all this time the people were making their offerings in the high places, because no house had been put up to the name of the Lord till those days.

  • 2 Chr 28:25
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    25And in every town of Judah he made high places where perfumes were burned to other gods, awaking the wrath of the Lord, the God of his fathers.

  • 2 Chr 15:17
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    17But the high places were not taken away out of Israel; but still the heart of Asa was true to the Lord all his life.

  • 1 Kgs 15:14
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    14The high places, however, were not taken away: but still the heart of Asa was true to the Lord all his life.

  • 2 Kgs 21:3-5
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    3He put up again the high places which had been pulled down by Hezekiah his father; he made altars for Baal, and an Asherah, as Ahab, king of Israel, had done; he was a worshipper and servant of all the stars of heaven.

    4And he put up altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, In Jerusalem will I put my name.

    5And he put up altars for all the stars of heaven in the two outer squares of the house of the Lord.

  • 2 Kgs 16:3-4
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    3But he went in the ways of the kings of Israel, and even made his son go through the fire, copying the disgusting ways of the nations whom the Lord had sent out of the land before the children of Israel.

    4And he made offerings, burning them in the high places and on the hills and under every green tree.

  • 2 Kgs 17:11
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    11Burning their offerings in all the high places, as those nations did whom the Lord sent away from before them; they did evil things, moving the Lord to wrath;

  • 2 Chr 32:12
    72%

    12Has not this same Hezekiah taken away his high places and his altars, saying to Judah and Jerusalem, Give worship before one altar only, burning offerings on it?

  • 2 Kgs 23:19
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    19Then Josiah took away all the houses of the high places in the towns of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had put up, moving the Lord to wrath, and he did with them as he had done in Beth-el.

  • 2 Kgs 23:15
    72%

    15And the altar at Beth-el, and the high place put up by Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, who made Israel do evil, that altar and that high place were pulled down; and the high place was burned and crushed to dust and the Asherah was burned.

  • 2 Chr 28:4
    72%

    4And he made offerings and had perfumes burned in the high places and on the hills and under every green tree.

  • 2 Chr 14:3
    72%

    3For he took away the altars of strange gods and the high places, and had the upright stones broken and the wood pillars cut down;

  • 2 Chr 34:3
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    3In the eighth year of his rule, while he was still young, his heart was first turned to the God of his father David; and in the twelfth year he undertook the clearing away of all the high places and the pillars and the images of wood and metal from Judah and Jerusalem.

  • 2 Chr 26:16
    71%

    16But when he had become strong, his heart was lifted up in pride, causing his destruction; and he did evil against the Lord his God; for he went into the Temple of the Lord for the purpose of burning perfumes on the altar of perfumes.

  • 2 Chr 14:5
    71%

    5And he took away the high places and the sun-images from all the towns of Judah; and the kingdom was quiet under his rule.

  • 1 Kgs 12:31
    71%

    31And he made places for worship at the high places, and made priests, who were not Levites, from among all the people.

  • 2 Kgs 23:8
    71%

    8And he made all the priests from the towns of Judah come into Jerusalem, and he made unclean the high places where the priests had been burning offerings, from Geba to Beer-sheba; and he had the high places of the evil spirits pulled down which were by the doorway of Joshua, the ruler of the town, on the left side of the way into the town.

  • Jer 19:13
    71%

    13And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, which they have made unclean, will be like the place of Topheth, even all the houses on whose roofs perfumes have been burned to all the army of heaven, and drink offerings drained out to other gods.

  • 2 Chr 27:6
    71%

    6So Jotham became strong, because in all his ways he made the Lord his guide.

  • 2 Chr 21:11
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    11And more than this, he made high places in the mountains of Judah, teaching the people of Jerusalem to go after false gods, and guiding Judah away from the true way.

  • 2 Kgs 16:18
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    18*** the house of the Lord, because of the king of Assyria.

  • 2 Kgs 17:9
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    9And the children of Israel did secretly against the Lord their God things which were not right, building high places for themselves in all their towns, from the tower of the watchmen to the walled town.

  • 2 Chr 19:3
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    3But still there is some good in you, for you have put away the wood pillars out of the land, and have given your heart to the worship of God.

  • 2 Kgs 23:12-13
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    12And the altars on the roof of the high room of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two outer squares of the house of the Lord, were pulled down and crushed to bits, and the dust of them was put into the stream Kidron.

    13And the high places before Jerusalem, on the south side of the mountain of destruction, which Solomon, king of Israel, had made for Ashtoreth, the disgusting god of the Zidonians, and for Chemosh, the disgusting god of Moab, and for Milcom, the disgusting god of the children of Ammon, the king made unclean.

  • 2 Kgs 15:32
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    32In the second year of Pekah, the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, Jotham, the son of Uzziah, became king of Judah.

  • 2 Chr 34:5
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    5And he had the bones of the priests burned on their altars, and so he made Judah and Jerusalem clean.

  • Jer 32:35
    70%

    35And they put up the high places of the Baal in the valley of the son of Hinnom, making their sons and their daughters go through the fire to Molech; which I did not give them orders to do, and it never came into my mind that they would do this disgusting thing, causing Judah to be turned out of the way.