2 Kings 15:35

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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 12:3 : 3 Joash did what was right in the eyes of the LORD all the days that Jehoiada the priest instructed him.
  • 2 Chr 23:20 : 20 He took the commanders of hundreds, the nobles, the rulers of the people, and all the people of the land and brought the king down from the house of the Lord. They entered through the Upper Gate to the king's palace and seated the king on the royal throne.
  • 2 Chr 27:3-9 : 3 He built the Upper Gate of the house of the LORD and carried out extensive construction on the wall of the Ophel. 4 He also built cities in the hill country of Judah, and in the forests, he constructed fortresses and towers. 5 He fought against the king of the Ammonites and prevailed. That year, the Ammonites paid him one hundred talents of silver, ten thousand measures of wheat, and ten thousand of barley. They continued to pay him the same for the second and third years. 6 Jotham grew strong because he carefully prepared his ways before the LORD his God. 7 The rest of Jotham's acts, including all his wars and his ways, are written in the Book of the Kings of Israel and Judah. 8 He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned for sixteen years in Jerusalem. 9 Jotham rested with his ancestors and was buried in the city of David. His son Ahaz succeeded him as king.
  • 2 Chr 32:12 : 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 Kgs 15:4 : 4 However, the high places were not removed; the people continued to sacrifice and burn incense there.
  • 2 Kgs 18:4 : 4 He removed the high places, broke the sacred pillars, cut down the Asherah poles, and smashed the bronze serpent that Moses had made, because the people of Israel had been burning incense to it, calling it Nehushtan.

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  • 2 Kgs 15:3-5
    3 verses
    90%

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

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

    5The LORD afflicted the king with leprosy until the day of his death, and he lived in a separate house. Meanwhile, Jotham, the king's son, was in charge of the palace and governed the people of the land.

  • 2 Kgs 14:3-4
    2 verses
    84%

    3He 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.

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

  • 2 Kgs 12:3
    84%

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

  • 2 Chr 27:2-3
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    80%

    2He 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.

    3He built the Upper Gate of the house of the LORD and carried out extensive construction on the wall of the Ophel.

  • 2 Kgs 15:36
    78%

    36The rest of the events of Jotham’s reign, including all that he did, are written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah.

  • 2 Chr 20:33
    77%

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

  • 2 Chr 33:15-17
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    76%

    15He removed the foreign gods and the image from the house of the LORD, and all the altars he had built on the hill of the house of the LORD and in Jerusalem, and he threw them outside the city.

    16Then he restored the altar of the LORD and offered on it sacrifices of peace offerings and thanksgiving. And he commanded Judah to worship the LORD, the God of Israel.

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

  • 1 Kgs 22:43
    76%

    43Jehoshaphat 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 15:34
    75%

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

  • 2 Chr 17:6
    75%

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

  • 2 Chr 33:3-5
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    75%

    3He 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.

    4He built altars in the temple of the LORD, about which the LORD had said, 'My name will remain in Jerusalem forever.'

    5He built altars to all the stars of the sky in both courtyards of the temple of the LORD.

  • 1 Kgs 3:2
    74%

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

  • 2 Chr 28:25
    74%

    25In 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 15:17
    74%

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

  • 1 Kgs 15:14
    73%

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

  • 2 Kgs 21:3-5
    3 verses
    73%

    3He 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.

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

    5He built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the LORD's house.

  • 2 Kgs 16:3-4
    2 verses
    73%

    3He 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.

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

  • 2 Kgs 17:11
    73%

    11There, 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 32:12
    72%

    12Hasn'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 Kgs 23:19
    72%

    19Josiah 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 Kgs 23:15
    72%

    15Even 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.

  • 2 Chr 28:4
    72%

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

  • 2 Chr 14:3
    72%

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

  • 2 Chr 34:3
    71%

    3In 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 Chr 26:16
    71%

    16But after Uzziah became strong, his heart was lifted up with pride, leading to his downfall. He was unfaithful to the Lord his God and entered the temple of the Lord to burn incense on the altar of incense.

  • 2 Chr 14:5
    71%

    5He 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 12:31
    71%

    31Jeroboam also built shrines on high places and appointed priests from all sorts of people, even though they were not Levites.

  • 2 Kgs 23:8
    71%

    8He brought all the priests from the cities of Judah and defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense, from Geba to Beersheba. He also destroyed the high places at the gates—the one at the entrance of the Gate of Joshua, the governor of the city, which was on the left of the city gate.

  • Jer 19:13
    71%

    13The houses in Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah will become defiled like this place, Topheth—all the houses where they burned incense on their roofs to all the starry hosts and poured out drink offerings to other gods.

  • 2 Chr 27:6
    71%

    6Jotham grew strong because he carefully prepared his ways before the LORD his God.

  • 2 Chr 21:11
    70%

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

  • 2 Kgs 16:18
    70%

    18Then he removed the Sabbath canopy they had built in the temple and the royal entrance to the outer court, to accommodate the king of Assyria.

  • 2 Kgs 17:9
    70%

    9The Israelites secretly did things against the Lord their God that were not right. They built high places in all their towns, from watchtower to fortified city.

  • 2 Chr 19:3
    70%

    3But 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 23:12-13
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    70%

    12The king tore down the altars that were on the roof of Ahaz's upper chamber, the ones the kings of Judah had made. He also destroyed the altars that Manasseh had made in the two courtyards of the house of the Lord. He removed them from there, ground them to dust, and threw their dust into the Kidron Valley.

    13The king also defiled the high places east of Jerusalem, on the south of the Mount of Corruption, which Solomon, the king of Israel, had built for Ashtoreth, the detestable idol of the Sidonians, for Chemosh, the detestable idol of Moab, and for Milcom, the abomination of the Ammonites.

  • 2 Kgs 15:32
    70%

    32In the second year of Pekah son of Remaliah, king of Israel, Jotham son of Uzziah became king of Judah.

  • 2 Chr 34:5
    70%

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

  • Jer 32:35
    70%

    35They built high places for Baal in the Valley of Hinnom’s Son to sacrifice their sons and daughters to Molech, something I never commanded nor even considered in My heart. They committed this detestable act to make Judah sin.