2 Kings 15:35

Geneva Bible (1560)

But the hie places were not put away: for the people yet offered and burnt incense in the hie places: he buylt the hyest gate of the house of the Lord.

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  • 2 Kgs 12:3 : 3 But the hie places were not taken away: for the people offred yet and burnt incense in the hie places.
  • 2 Chr 23:20 : 20 And he tooke the captaines of hundreths, and the noble men, and the gouernours of the people, and all the people of the land, & he caused the King to come downe out of the house of the Lorde, and they went thorowe the hie gate of the Kings house, and set the King vpon the throne of the kingdome.
  • 2 Chr 27:3-9 : 3 He buylt the hie gate of the house of the Lord, and he buylt very much on the wal of the castle. 4 Moreouer hee buylt cities in the mountaines of Iudah, and in the forests he buylt palaces and towres. 5 And he fought with the King of the children of Ammon, & preuailed against them; the children of Ammon gaue him the same yere an hundreth talents of siluer, and ten thousande measures of wheate, & ten thousand of barley: this did the children of Ammon giue him both in the second yeere and the third. 6 So Iotham became mightie because hee directed his way before the Lord his God. 7 Concerning the rest of the acts of Iotham, & all his warres & his wayes, loe, they are written in the booke of the Kings of Israel, and Iudah. 8 He was fiue and twentie yeere olde when he began to reigne, and reigned sixteene yeere in Ierusalem. 9 And Iotham slept with his fathers, & they buryed him in the citie of Dauid: and Ahaz his sonne reigned in his stead.
  • 2 Chr 32:12 : 12 Hath not the same Hezekiah taken away his hie places and his altars, and commaunded Iudah and Ierusalem, saying, Ye shall worshippe before one altar, and burne incense vpon it?
  • 2 Kgs 15:4 : 4 But the hie places were not put away: for the people yet offered, and burned incense in the hie places.
  • 2 Kgs 18:4 : 4 He tooke away the hie places, and brake the images, and cut downe the groues, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for vnto those dayes the children of Israel did burne incense to it, and hee called it Nehushtan.

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  • 2 Kgs 15:3-5
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    3 And he did vprightly in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his father Amaziah did.

    4 But the hie places were not put away: for the people yet offered, and burned incense in the hie places.

    5 And the Lord smote the King: & he was a leper vnto the day of his death, and dwelt in an house apart, & Iotham the kings sonne gouerned the house, & iudged the people of the land.

  • 2 Kgs 14:3-4
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    3 And he did vprightly in the sight of the Lord, yet not like Dauid his father, but did according to all that Ioash his father had done.

    4 Notwithstanding the hie places were not taken away: for as yet the people did sacrifice and burnt incense in the hie places.

  • 3 But the hie places were not taken away: for the people offred yet and burnt incense in the hie places.

  • 2 Chr 27:2-3
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    2 And hee did vprightly in the sight of the Lorde according to all that his father Vzziah did, saue that hee entred not into the Temple of the Lorde, and the people did yet corrupt their wayes.

    3 He buylt the hie gate of the house of the Lord, and he buylt very much on the wal of the castle.

  • 36 Concerning the rest of the acts of Iotham, and all that hee did, are they not written in the booke of the Chronicles of the kings of Iudah?

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

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    15 And he tooke away the strange gods and the image out of the house of the Lord, & all the altars that he had built in the mount of the house of the Lorde, and in Ierusalem, and cast them out of the citie.

    16 Also he prepared the altar of the Lord, and sacrificed thereon peace offerings, and of thankes, & commanded Iudah to serue the Lord God of Israel.

    17 Neuerthelesse the people did sacrifice stil in the hie places, but vnto the Lorde their God.

  • 43 And he walked in all the wayes of Asa his father, and declined not therefrom, but did that which was right in the eyes of the Lorde. Neuerthelesse the hie places were not taken away: for the people offred still and burnt incense in the hie places.

  • 34 And hee did vprightly in the sight of the Lorde: he did according to all that his father Vzziah had done.

  • 6 And he lift vp his heart vnto the wayes of the Lorde, and he tooke away moreouer the hie places and the groues out of Iudah.

  • 2 Chr 33:3-5
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    3 For he went backe and built the hie places, which Hezekiah his father had broken downe: and he set vp altars for Baalim, and made groues, and worshipped all the hoste of the heauen, and serued them.

    4 Also he built altars in the house of the Lorde, whereof the Lorde had saide, In Ierusalem shall my Name be for euer.

    5 And he built altars for all the hoste of the heauen in the two courtes of the house of the Lorde.

  • 2 Only the people sacrificed in the hie places, because there was no house buylt vnto the name of the Lord, vntill those dayes.

  • 25 And in euery citie of Iudah hee made hie places, to burne incense vnto other gods, & prouoked to anger the Lord God of his fathers.

  • 17 But the hie places were not taken away out of Israel: yet the heart of Asa was perfit all his dayes.

  • 14 But they put not downe the hie places. Neuertheles Asas heart was vpright with the Lord all his dayes.

  • 2 Kgs 21:3-5
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    3 For he went backe and built the hie places, which Hezekiah his father had destroyed: and he erected vp altars for Baal, and made a groue, as did Ahab King of Israel, and worshipped all the hoste of heauen and serued them.

    4 Also he built altars in the house of the Lorde, of the which the Lorde saide, In Ierusalem will I put my Name.

    5 And he built altars for al the hoste of ye heauen in the two courtes of the house of the Lord.

  • 2 Kgs 16:3-4
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    3 But walked in the way of ye kings of Israel, yea, and made his sonne to go through the fire, after the abominations of the heathen, whom the Lord had cast out before the children of Israel.

    4 Also he offred and burnt incense in the hie places & on the hilles, & vnder euery greene tree.

  • 11 And there burnt incense in all the hie places, as did the heathen, whom the Lord had taken away before them, and wrought wicked things to anger the Lord,

  • 12 Hath not the same Hezekiah taken away his hie places and his altars, and commaunded Iudah and Ierusalem, saying, Ye shall worshippe before one altar, and burne incense vpon it?

  • 19 Iosiah also tooke away all the houses of the hie places, which were in the cities of Samaria, which the Kings of Israel had made to anger the Lord, and did to them according to all the factes that he had done in Beth-el.

  • 15 Furthermore the altar that was at Beth-el, and the hie place made by Ieroboam the sonne of Nebat, which made Israel to sinne, both this altar and also the hie place, brake he downe, & burnt the hie place, and stampt it to powder & burnt the groue.

  • 4 He sacrificed also and burnt incense in the hie places, and on hilles, and vnder euery greene tree.

  • 3 For he tooke away the altars of the strange gods and the hie places, and brake downe the images, and cut downe the groues,

  • 3 And in the eight yeere of his reigne (when he was yet a childe) he began to seeke after the God of Dauid his father: and in the twelft yeere he began to purge Iudah, and Ierusalem from the hie places, and the groues, and the carued images, and molten images:

  • 16 But when he was strong, his heart was lift vp to his destruction: for he trasgressed against the Lord his God, & went into the Temple of the Lord to burne incense vpon the altar of incense.

  • 5 And he tooke away out of all the cities of Iudah the hie places, and the images: therefore the kingdome was quiet before him.

  • 31 Also he made an house of hie places, and made Priestes of the lowest of the people, which were not of the sonnes of Leui.

  • 8 Also he brought all the priests out of the cities of Iudah, and defiled the hie places where the Priests had burnt incense, euen from Geba to Beer-sheba, and destroyed the hie places of the gates, that were in the entring in of the gate of Ioshua the gouernour of the citie, which was at the left hand of the gate of the citie.

  • 13 For the houses of Ierusalem, and the houses of the Kings of Iudah shalbe defiled as the place of Topheth, because of al the houses vpo whose roofes they haue burnt incense vnto all the host of heauen, and haue powred out drinke offerings vnto other gods.

  • 6 So Iotham became mightie because hee directed his way before the Lord his God.

  • 11 Moreouer hee made hie places in the mountaines of Iudah, and caused the inhabitants of Ierusalem to commit fornication, and compelled Iudah thereto.

  • 18 And the vaile for the Sabbath (that they had made in the house) & the Kings entrie without turned he to the house of the Lord, because of the King of Asshur.

  • 9 And the children of Israel had done secretly things that were not vpright before the Lorde their God, & throughout all their cities had built hie places, both from the tower of the watch, to the defensed citie,

  • 3 Neuertheles good things are found in thee, because thou hast taken away ye groues out of the land, and hast prepared thine heart to seeke God.

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    12 And the altars that were on the top of the chamber of Ahaz, which the Kings of Iudah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the Lord did the King breake downe, and hasted thence, & cast the dust of them in the brooke Kedron.

    13 Moreouer the King defiled the hie places that were before Ierusalem and on the right hand of the mount of corruption (which Salomon the King of Israel had buylt for Ashtoreth the idole of the Zidonians, and for Chemosh the idole of the Moabites, and for Milchom the abomination of the children of Ammon)

  • 32 In the second yere of Pekah the sonne of Remaliah King of Israel, began Iotham sonne of Vzziah King of Iudah to reigne.

  • 5 Also he burnt the bones of the Priests vpon their altars, and purged Iudah & Ierusalem.

  • 35 And they built the hie places of Baal, which are in the valley of Ben-hinnom, to cause their sonnes & their daughters to passe through the fire vnto Molech, which I commaunded them not, neither came it into my minde, that they should doe such abomination, to cause Iudah to sinne.