2 Chronicles 20:33

Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

However, the high places were not removed, and the people still had not fully set their hearts on the God of their ancestors.

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Other Translations

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    Howbeit the high places were not taken away: for as yet the people had not prepared their hearts unto the God of their fathers.

  • KJV1611 – Modern English

    Nevertheless, the high places were not taken away, for as yet the people had not directed their hearts to the God of their fathers.

  • King James Version 1611 (Original)

    Howbeit the high places were not taken away: for as yet the people had not prepared their hearts unto the God of their fathers.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    Howbeit the high places{H1116} were not taken away;{H5493} neither as yet had the people{H5971} set{H3559} their hearts{H3824} unto the God{H430} of their fathers.{H1}

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    Howbeit the high places{H1116} were not taken away{H5493}{(H8804)}: for as yet the people{H5971} had not prepared{H3559}{(H8689)} their hearts{H3824} unto the God{H430} of their fathers{H1}.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    sauynge that ye hye places were not put downe, for the people had not yet prepared their hert to the God of their fathers.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    Howbeit the hie places were not taken away: for the people had not yet prepared their hearts vnto the God of their fathers.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    Howbeit the high places were not taken away: for the people had not yet prepared their heartes vnto the God of their fathers.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    Howbeit the high places were not taken away: for as yet the people had not prepared their hearts unto the God of their fathers.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    However the high places were not taken away; neither as yet had the people set their hearts to the God of their fathers.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    Only, the high places have not turned aside, and still the people have not prepared their heart for the God of their fathers.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    Howbeit the high places were not taken away; neither as yet had the people set their hearts unto the God of their fathers.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    Howbeit the high places were not taken away; neither as yet had the people set their hearts unto the God of their fathers.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    The high places, however, were not taken away, and the hearts of the people were still not true to the God of their fathers.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    However the high places were not taken away; neither as yet had the people set their hearts to the God of their fathers.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    However, the high places were not eliminated; the people were still not devoted to the God of their ancestors.

Referenced Verses

  • 2 Chr 17:6 : 6 His heart was encouraged in the ways of the LORD, and moreover, he removed the high places and Asherah poles from Judah.
  • 2 Chr 19:3 : 3 But there is some good in you, for you have removed the Asherah poles from the land and have set your heart to seek God.
  • 2 Chr 12:14 : 14 He did evil because he did not resolve in his heart to seek the LORD.
  • 2 Chr 14:3 : 3 He commanded Judah to seek the Lord, the God of their ancestors, and to obey the law and the commandment.
  • Deut 29:4 : 4 I led you for forty years in the wilderness. Your clothes did not wear out on you, and your sandals did not wear out on your feet.
  • 1 Sam 7:3 : 3 Then Samuel said to the whole house of Israel, 'If you are truly returning to the LORD with all your heart, rid yourselves of the foreign gods and the Ashtaroth among you. Commit your hearts to the LORD and worship Him only, and He will deliver you from the hand of the Philistines.'
  • 2 Chr 30:19 : 19 who sets their heart on seeking God—the LORD, the God of their ancestors—even if they are not clean according to the rules of the sanctuary.'

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • 2 Kgs 12:3
    81%

    3 Joash did what was right in the eyes of the LORD all the days that Jehoiada the priest instructed him.

  • 1 Kgs 22:43
    80%

    43 Jehoshaphat followed in all the ways of his father Asa. He did not turn aside from them and did what was right in the eyes of the LORD.

  • 2 Kgs 14:3-4
    2 verses
    79%

    3 He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, though not like his ancestor David. He followed the example of his father Joash instead.

    4 However, the high places were not removed; the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense there.

  • 2 Chr 15:17
    79%

    17 Although the high places were not removed from Israel, Asa’s heart was fully devoted to the LORD all his life.

  • 2 Kgs 15:4
    78%

    4 However, the high places were not removed; the people continued to sacrifice and burn incense there.

  • 2 Chr 19:3-4
    2 verses
    77%

    3 But there is some good in you, for you have removed the Asherah poles from the land and have set your heart to seek God.

    4 Jehoshaphat lived in Jerusalem, but he also went out among the people, from Beersheba to the hill country of Ephraim, and turned them back to the LORD, the God of their ancestors.

  • 1 Kgs 15:14
    77%

    14 The high places were not removed, yet Asa’s heart was fully devoted to the LORD all his days.

  • 2 Chr 17:6
    77%

    6 His heart was encouraged in the ways of the LORD, and moreover, he removed the high places and Asherah poles from Judah.

  • 2 Kgs 15:35
    77%

    35 However, the high places were not removed; the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense there. Jotham built the upper gate of the temple of the LORD.

  • 2 Chr 20:32
    76%

    32 Jehoshaphat followed the path of his father Asa and did not turn from it. He did what was right in the eyes of the LORD.

  • 2 Chr 33:17
    76%

    17 However, the people still sacrificed at the high places, but only to the LORD their God.

  • 2 Chr 17:2-4
    3 verses
    75%

    2 He stationed troops in all the fortified cities of Judah and placed garrisons in the land of Judah and in the cities of Ephraim that his father Asa had captured.

    3 The LORD was with Jehoshaphat because he followed the early ways of his ancestor David and did not seek after the Baals.

    4 Instead, he sought the God of his father and obeyed His commands rather than following the practices of Israel.

  • 2 Chr 30:19
    73%

    19 who sets their heart on seeking God—the LORD, the God of their ancestors—even if they are not clean according to the rules of the sanctuary.'

  • 2 Chr 34:32-33
    2 verses
    72%

    32 He had everyone in Jerusalem and Benjamin pledge themselves to it. So the inhabitants of Jerusalem acted according to the covenant of God, the God of their ancestors.

    33 Josiah removed all the detestable idols from all the territories belonging to the Israelites, and he compelled everyone in Israel to serve the LORD their God. Throughout his reign, they did not turn aside from following the LORD, the God of their ancestors.

  • 1 Kgs 11:33
    72%

    33 'For they have forsaken Me and worshiped Ashtoreth, the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh, the god of Moab, and Milcom, the god of the Ammonites. They have not walked in My ways, done what is right in My sight, or kept My statutes and judgments as David, his father, did.'

  • 2 Kgs 17:40
    72%

    40 But they would not listen. Instead, they continued to act according to their former customs.

  • 2 Chr 20:34
    71%

    34 The rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, from beginning to end, are written in the records of Jehu son of Hanani, which were included in the Book of the Kings of Israel.

  • 1 Kgs 3:2
    71%

    2 However, the people were still sacrificing on the high places because no house had yet been built for the name of the LORD.

  • 2 Chr 30:7
    71%

    7 Do not be like your ancestors and your brothers, who were unfaithful to the LORD, the God of their ancestors, so that He made them an object of horror, as you can see.

  • 1 Kgs 15:3
    70%

    3 He committed all the sins his father had done before him, and his heart was not fully devoted to the LORD his God, as the heart of David his forefather had been.

  • 2 Kgs 10:31
    70%

    31 But Jehu did not walk in the law of the LORD, the God of Israel, with all his heart. He did not turn from the sins that Jeroboam had caused Israel to commit.

  • 1 Kgs 8:61
    70%

    61 May your hearts be fully devoted to the LORD our God, to walk in His statutes and to keep His commandments, as it is today.

  • 2 Chr 28:25
    70%

    25 In every city of Judah, he built high places to burn incense to other gods, provoking the LORD, the God of his ancestors, to anger.

  • Jer 17:2
    70%

    2 Even their children remember their altars and their Asherah poles beside the green trees on the high hills.

  • 2 Chr 29:6
    70%

    6 For our ancestors were unfaithful and did what was evil in the sight of the LORD our God. They abandoned Him, turned their backs on His dwelling place, and walked away.

  • 2 Kgs 17:29
    70%

    29 But each nation made its own gods and set them up in the shrines of the high places that the Samaritans had made—each nation in the towns where they lived.

  • Ps 78:8
    70%

    8 They would not be like their ancestors—a stubborn and rebellious generation, whose hearts were not loyal, whose spirits were not faithful to God.

  • Judg 2:17
    70%

    17 Yet they did not listen to their judges but prostituted themselves by worshiping other gods. They turned quickly from the way their ancestors had walked in obedience to the LORD’s commandments. They did not do as their ancestors had done.

  • 1 Chr 29:18
    70%

    18 LORD, the God of our fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, keep these intentions and thoughts in the hearts of your people forever, and direct their hearts toward you.

  • 2 Chr 34:3
    70%

    3 In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young, he began to seek the God of his ancestor David. In the twelfth year, he started to purify Judah and Jerusalem by removing the high places, the Asherah poles, the carved images, and the cast idols.

  • 2 Kgs 23:19
    70%

    19 Josiah also removed all the shrines on the high places in the towns of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke the LORD to anger. He did to them just as he had done at Bethel.

  • 2 Chr 14:3
    70%

    3 He commanded Judah to seek the Lord, the God of their ancestors, and to obey the law and the commandment.

  • 2 Chr 19:9
    69%

    9 He gave them these orders: 'You must act in the fear of the LORD, faithfully and with a whole heart.'

  • Jer 44:10
    69%

    10 To this day, they have not humbled themselves, nor have they feared me or walked in my law and my decrees that I set before you and your ancestors.

  • 2 Kgs 17:14
    69%

    14 But they would not listen. Instead, they hardened their necks like their fathers who did not believe in the Lord their God.

  • 1 Kgs 22:45
    69%

    45 Jehoshaphat was at peace with the king of Israel.

  • 2 Chr 11:16
    69%

    16 Those from all the tribes of Israel who had set their hearts on seeking the LORD, the God of Israel, followed them to Jerusalem to sacrifice to the LORD, the God of their fathers.

  • 1 Chr 22:19
    69%

    19 Now set your heart and soul to seek the Lord your God. Arise and build the sanctuary of the Lord God, so that you may bring the ark of the covenant of the Lord and the holy vessels of God into the house that is to be built for the name of the Lord.

  • 2 Kgs 23:26
    69%

    26 However, the LORD did not turn from the fierce anger that burned against Judah because of all that Manasseh had done to provoke Him to anger.

  • 2 Chr 24:18
    69%

    18 They abandoned the house of the Lord, the God of their ancestors, and started worshiping the Asherah poles and idols. As a result, God's wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem because of their guilt.

  • Ezek 20:24
    69%

    24 because they did not carry out my ordinances but rejected my statutes and profaned my Sabbaths, and their eyes were fixed on their fathers' idols.

  • 2 Chr 17:10
    69%

    10 The fear of the LORD came upon all the kingdoms surrounding Judah, so they did not make war against Jehoshaphat.

  • 2 Chr 21:11-12
    2 verses
    69%

    11 Jehoram also built high places in the hills of Judah, leading the inhabitants of Jerusalem into unfaithfulness and causing Judah to stray.

    12 Then Jehoram received a letter from the prophet Elijah, which said, "This is what the Lord, the God of your ancestor David, says: Because you have not followed the ways of your father Jehoshaphat or the ways of Asa, king of Judah..."

  • 2 Kgs 17:11
    69%

    11 There, on all the high places, they burned incense as the nations whom the Lord had driven out before them had done. They did wicked things that provoked the Lord to anger.