2 Chronicles 20:33

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אַ֥ךְ הַבָּמ֖וֹת לֹא־סָ֑רוּ וְע֤וֹד הָעָם֙ לֹא־הֵכִ֣ינוּ לְבָבָ֔ם לֵאלֹהֵ֖י אֲבֹתֵיהֶֽם׃

Transliteration

Surely habbāmôt not-sārû and-yet hāʿām not-hēkînû lebābām to-ʾĕlōhê ʾăbōtêhem.

Grammar Details

*habbāmôt*: feminine plural noun with definite article - the high places
*sārû*: qal perfect 3rd common plural - they were removed
*hāʿām*: masculine singular noun with definite article - the people
*hēkînû*: hiphil perfect 3rd common plural - they prepared/established
*lebābām*: masculine singular noun with 3rd masculine plural suffix - their heart
*ʾĕlōhê*: masculine plural construct - God of
*ʾăbōtêhem*: masculine plural noun with 3rd masculine plural suffix - their fathers

Word Meanings

*habbāmôt*: high places/shrines/elevated worship sites
*sārû*: were removed/turned aside/taken away
*hēkînû*: prepared/established/directed
*lebābām*: their heart/mind/inner person

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Referenced Verses

2 Chr 17:6 : 6 And his heart was lifted up in the ways of the LORD: moreover he took away the high places and groves out of Judah.
2 Chr 19:3 : 3 Nevertheless there are good things found in thee, in that thou hast taken away the groves out of the land, and hast prepared thine heart to seek God.
2 Chr 12:14 : 14 And he did evil, because he prepared not his heart to seek the LORD.
2 Chr 14:3 : 3 For he took away the altars of the strange gods, and the high places, and brake down the images, and cut down the groves:
Deut 29:4 : 4 Yet the LORD hath not given you an heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this day.
1 Sam 7:3 : 3 And Samuel spake unto all the house of Israel, saying, If ye do return unto the LORD with all your hearts, then put away the strange gods and Ashtaroth from among you, and prepare your hearts unto the LORD, and serve him only: and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.
2 Chr 30:19 : 19 That prepareth his heart to seek God, the LORD God of his fathers, though he be not cleansed according to the purification 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
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3But the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
1 Kgs 22:43
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43And he walked in all the ways of Asa his father; he turned not aside from it, doing that which was right in the eyes of the LORD: nevertheless the high places were not taken away; for the people offered and burnt incense yet in the high places.
2 Kgs 14:3-4
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3And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, yet not like David his father: he did according to all things as Joash his father did.
4Howbeit the high places were not taken away: as yet the people did sacrifice and burnt incense on the high places.
2 Chr 15:17
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17But the high places were not taken away out of Israel: nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect all his days.
2 Kgs 15:4
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4Save that the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burnt incense still on the high places.
2 Chr 19:3-4
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77%
3Nevertheless there are good things found in thee, in that thou hast taken away the groves out of the land, and hast prepared thine heart to seek God.
4And Jehoshaphat dwelt at Jerusalem: and he went out again through the people from Beersheba to mount Ephraim, and brought them back unto the LORD God of their fathers.
1 Kgs 15:14
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14But the high places were not removed: nevertheless Asa's heart was perfect with the LORD all his days.
2 Chr 17:6
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6And his heart was lifted up in the ways of the LORD: moreover he took away the high places and groves out of Judah.
2 Kgs 15:35
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35Howbeit the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burned incense still in the high places. He built the higher gate of the house of the LORD.
2 Chr 20:32
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32And he walked in the way of Asa his father, and departed not from it, doing that which was right in the sight of the LORD.
2 Chr 33:17
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17Nevertheless the people did sacrifice still in the high places, yet unto the LORD their God only.
2 Chr 17:2-4
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75%
2And he placed forces in all the fenced cities of Judah, and set garrisons in the land of Judah, and in the cities of Ephraim, which Asa his father had taken.
3And the LORD was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the first ways of his father David, and sought not unto Baalim;
4But sought to the LORD God of his father, and walked in his commandments, and not after the doings of Israel.
2 Chr 30:19
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19That prepareth his heart to seek God, the LORD God of his fathers, though he be not cleansed according to the purification of the sanctuary.
2 Chr 34:32-33
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32And he caused all that were present in Jerusalem and Benjamin to stand to it. And the inhabitants of Jerusalem did according to the covenant of God, the God of their fathers.
33And Josiah took away all the abominations out of all the countries that pertained to the children of Israel, and made all that were present in Israel to serve, even to serve the LORD their God. And all his days they departed not from following the LORD, the God of their fathers.
1 Kgs 11:33
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33Because that they have forsaken me, and have worshipped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Milcom the god of the children of Ammon, and have not walked in my ways, to do that which is right in mine eyes, and to keep my statutes and my judgments, as did David his father.
2 Kgs 17:40
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40Howbeit they did not hearken, but they did after their former manner.
2 Chr 20:34
71%
34Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of Jehu the son of Hanani, who is mentioned in the book of the kings of Israel.
1 Kgs 3:2
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2Only the people sacrificed in high places, because there was no house built unto the name of the LORD, until those days.
2 Chr 30:7
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7And be not ye like your fathers, and like your brethren, which trespassed against the LORD God of their fathers, who therefore gave them up to desolation, as ye see.
1 Kgs 15:3
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3And he walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before him: and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God, as the heart of David his father.
2 Kgs 10:31
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31But Jehu took no heed to walk in the law of the LORD God of Israel with all his heart: for he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam, which made Israel to sin.
1 Kgs 8:61
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2 Chr 28:25
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25And in every several city of Judah he made high places to burn incense unto other gods, and provoked to anger the LORD God of his fathers.
Jer 17:2
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2Whilst their children remember their altars and their groves by the green trees upon the high hills.
2 Chr 29:6
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6For our fathers have trespassed, and done that which was evil in the eyes of the LORD our God, and have forsaken him, and have turned away their faces from the habitation of the LORD, and turned their backs.
2 Kgs 17:29
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29Howbeit every nation made gods of their own, and put them in the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation in their cities wherein they dwelt.
Ps 78:8
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8And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn{H8802)} and rebellious{H8802)} generation; a generation that set not their heart aright{H8689)}, and whose spirit was not stedfast{H8738)} with God.
Judg 2:17
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17And yet they would not hearken unto their judges, but they went a whoring after other gods, and bowed themselves unto them: they turned quickly out of the way which their fathers walked in, obeying the commandments of the LORD; but they did not so.
1 Chr 29:18
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18O LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers, keep this for ever in the imagination of the thoughts of the heart of thy people, and prepare their heart unto thee:
2 Chr 34:3
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3For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father: and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images.
2 Kgs 23:19
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19And all the houses also of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke the LORD to anger, Josiah took away, and did to them according to all the acts that he had done in Bethel.
2 Chr 14:3
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3For he took away the altars of the strange gods, and the high places, and brake down the images, and cut down the groves:
2 Chr 19:9
69%
9And he charged them, saying, Thus shall ye do in the fear of the LORD, faithfully, and with a perfect heart.
Jer 44:10
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10They are not humbled even unto this day, neither have they feared, nor walked in my law, nor in my statutes, that I set before you and before your fathers.
2 Kgs 17:14
69%
14Notwithstanding they would not hear, but hardened their necks, like to the neck of their fathers, that did not believe in the LORD their God.
1 Kgs 22:45
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45Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, and his might that he shewed, and how he warred, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
2 Chr 11:16
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16And after them out of all the tribes of Israel such as set their hearts to seek the LORD God of Israel came to Jerusalem, to sacrifice unto the LORD God of their fathers.
1 Chr 22:19
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19Now set your heart and your soul to seek the LORD your God; arise therefore, and build ye the sanctuary of the LORD God, to bring the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and the holy vessels of God, into the house that is to be built to the name of the LORD.
2 Kgs 23:26
69%
26Notwithstanding the LORD turned not from the fierceness of his great wrath, wherewith his anger was kindled against Judah, because of all the provocations that Manasseh had provoked him withal.
2 Chr 24:18
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18And they left the house of the LORD God of their fathers, and served groves and idols: and wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem for this their trespass.
Ezek 20:24
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24Because they had not executed my judgments, but had despised my statutes, and had polluted my sabbaths, and their eyes were after their fathers' idols.
2 Chr 17:10
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10And the fear of the LORD fell upon all the kingdoms of the lands that were round about Judah, so that they made no war against Jehoshaphat.
2 Chr 21:11-12
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69%
11Moreover he made high places in the mountains of Judah, and caused the inhabitants of Jerusalem to commit fornication, and compelled Judah thereto.
12And there came a writing to him from Elijah the prophet, saying, Thus saith the LORD God of David thy father, Because thou hast not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat thy father, nor in the ways of Asa king of Judah,
2 Kgs 17:11
69%
11And there they burnt incense in all the high places, as did the heathen whom the LORD carried away before them; and wrought wicked things to provoke the LORD to anger: