2 Kings 14:4

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

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  • 2 Kgs 12:3 : 3 Joash did what was right in the eyes of the LORD all the days that Jehoiada the priest instructed him.
  • 2 Kgs 16:4 : 4 He offered sacrifices and burned incense on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.
  • 2 Kgs 15:4 : 4 However, the high places were not removed; the people continued to sacrifice and burn incense there.
  • 2 Kgs 15:35 : 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.

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  • 2 Kgs 15:3-4
    2 verses
    92%

    3 He did what was right in the sight of the LORD, just as his father Amaziah had done.

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

  • 2 Kgs 12:2-3
    2 verses
    89%

    2 In the seventh year of Jehu, Joash became king, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Zibiah, and she was from Beersheba.

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

  • 2 Kgs 15:34-35
    2 verses
    84%

    34 Jotham did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, just as his father Uzziah had done.

    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 Kgs 14:3
    80%

    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.

  • 1 Kgs 22:43
    79%

    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 Chr 20:33
    79%

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

  • 2 Chr 28:2-4
    3 verses
    77%

    2 Instead, he followed the ways of the kings of Israel, and he even made cast images for the Baals.

    3 He burned sacrifices in the Valley of Ben-Hinnom and sacrificed his sons in the fire, following the detestable practices of the nations that the LORD had driven out before the Israelites.

    4 He offered sacrifices and burned incense on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.

  • 2 Kgs 16:3-4
    2 verses
    77%

    3 He followed the ways of the kings of Israel, and even sacrificed his son in the fire, imitating the detestable practices of the nations the Lord had driven out before the Israelites.

    4 He offered sacrifices and burned incense on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.

  • 1 Kgs 15:14
    76%

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

  • 2 Chr 33:17
    76%

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

  • 2 Chr 15:17
    76%

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

  • 2 Chr 17:6
    74%

    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 27:2
    74%

    2 He did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, just as his father Uzziah had done. However, he did not enter the temple of the LORD, but the people still acted corruptly.

  • 2 Kgs 13:11-12
    2 verses
    73%

    11 He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD and did not turn away from all the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, who led Israel to sin; he continued in them.

    12 As for the rest of the events of Jehoash's reign, all that he did, and his might, including how he fought against Amaziah king of Judah, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?

  • 2 Kgs 17:11
    73%

    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.

  • 2 Chr 14:3-5
    3 verses
    72%

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

    4 He also removed the high places and the incense altars from all the cities of Judah, and the kingdom was at peace under him.

    5 He built fortified cities in Judah because the land was at peace. There was no war during those years, for the Lord had given him rest.

  • 1 Kgs 3:2-3
    2 verses
    72%

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

    3 Solomon loved the LORD, walking according to the statutes of his father David, yet he offered sacrifices and burned incense on the high places.

  • 2 Chr 34:3-5
    3 verses
    72%

    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.

    4 In his presence, they tore down the altars of the Baals, and he cut down the incense altars that were above them. He shattered the Asherah poles, the carved images, and the cast idols, crushing them into powder, and he scattered the dust over the graves of those who had sacrificed to them.

    5 He burned the bones of the priests on their altars, and he purified Judah and Jerusalem.

  • 2 Kgs 14:5
    72%

    5 When the kingdom was firmly in his control, he executed the officials who had assassinated his father the king.

  • 2 Chr 24:4
    71%

    4 After this, Joash decided to restore the house of the Lord.

  • 2 Kgs 14:15
    71%

    15 As for the rest of the events of Jehoash’s reign, what he did and his might, and how he fought against Amaziah king of Judah, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?

  • 2 Chr 32:12
    71%

    12 Hasn't the same Hezekiah removed his high places and altars, saying to Judah and Jerusalem, 'You must worship before one altar and burn sacrifices on it'?

  • 2 Chr 28:25
    71%

    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.

  • 2 Chr 24:2
    71%

    2 Joash did what was right in the eyes of the Lord all the days of Jehoiada the priest.

  • 2 Kgs 21:3-4
    2 verses
    70%

    3 He rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed, set up altars for Baal, and made an Asherah, as King Ahab of Israel had done. He bowed down to all the host of heaven and served them.

    4 He built altars in the house of the LORD, about which the LORD had said, 'In Jerusalem I will put My name.'

  • Jer 19:4
    70%

    4 For they have abandoned Me and made this place foreign. They have burned incense here to other gods—gods that neither they, their ancestors, nor the kings of Judah have known. And they have filled this place with the blood of the innocent.

  • 2 Kgs 12:18
    70%

    18 At that time, Hazael king of Aram went up and fought against Gath and captured it. Then he turned to attack Jerusalem.

  • 2 Kgs 13:2
    70%

    2 He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD and followed the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, who led Israel to sin, and he did not turn away from them.

  • 2 Chr 19:3
    70%

    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 Kgs 13:6
    70%

    6 However, they did not turn away from the sins of the house of Jeroboam, who had led Israel to sin, but continued in them; even the Asherah pole remained in Samaria.

  • 2 Kgs 14:24
    70%

    24 He did what was evil in the eyes of the LORD and did not turn away from all the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, who had led Israel into sin.

  • 2 Chr 33:3
    70%

    3 He rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had torn down, set up altars to the Baals, made Asherah poles, and worshipped all the stars of the sky and served them.

  • 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 17:4
    70%

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

  • 2 Chr 21:11
    69%

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

  • 2 Kgs 3:2
    69%

    2 He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, but not like his father and mother; he removed the pillar of Baal that his father had made.

  • 2 Kgs 23:15
    69%

    15 Even the altar at Bethel, the high place that Jeroboam son of Nebat had made, the one who caused Israel to sin—even that altar and the high place he tore down. He burned the high place, crushed it to dust, and burned the Asherah pole that was there.