2 Chronicles 20:33
However, the high places were not eliminated; the people were still not devoted to the God of their ancestors.
Additional Resources
Referenced Verses
- 2 Chr 17:6 : 6 He was committed to following the LORD; he even removed the high places and Asherah poles from Judah.
- 2 Chr 19:3 : 3 Nevertheless you have done some good things; you removed the Asherah poles from the land and you were determined to follow God.”
- 2 Chr 12:14 : 14 He did evil because he was not determined to follow the LORD.
- 2 Chr 14:3 : 3 He removed the pagan altars and the high places, smashed the sacred pillars, and cut down the Asherah poles.
- Deut 29:4 : 4 But to this very day the LORD has not given you an understanding mind, perceptive eyes, or discerning ears!
- 1 Sam 7:3 : 3 Samuel said to all the people of Israel,“If you are really turning to the LORD with all your hearts, remove from among you the foreign gods and the images of Ashtoreth. Give your hearts to the LORD and serve only him. Then he will deliver you from the hand of the Philistines.”
- 2 Chr 30:19 : 19 everyone who has determined to follow God, the LORD God of his ancestors, even if he is not ceremonially clean according to the standards of the temple.”
Similar Verses (AI)
These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.
- 81%
3 But the high places were not eliminated; the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense on the high places.
- 80%
43 He followed in his father Asa’s footsteps and was careful to do what the LORD approved.(22:44) However, the high places were not eliminated; the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense on the high places.
- 2 Kgs 14:3-42 verses79%
3 He did what the LORD approved, but not like David his father. He followed the example of his father Joash.
4 But the high places were not eliminated; the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense on the high places.
- 79%
17 The high places were not eliminated from Israel, yet Asa was wholeheartedly devoted to the LORD throughout his lifetime.
- 78%
4 But the high places were not eliminated; the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense on the high places.
- 2 Chr 19:3-42 verses77%
3 Nevertheless you have done some good things; you removed the Asherah poles from the land and you were determined to follow God.”
4 Jehoshaphat Appoints Judges Jehoshaphat lived in Jerusalem. He went out among the people from Beer Sheba to the hill country of Ephraim and encouraged them to follow the LORD God of their ancestors.
- 77%
14 The high places were not eliminated, yet Asa was wholeheartedly devoted to the LORD throughout his lifetime.
- 77%
6 He was committed to following the LORD; he even removed the high places and Asherah poles from Judah.
- 77%
35 But the high places were not eliminated; the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense on the high places. He built the Upper Gate to the LORD’s temple.
- 76%
32 He followed in his father Asa’s footsteps and was careful to do what the LORD approved.
- 76%
17 However, the people continued to offer sacrifices at the high places, but only to the LORD their God.
- 2 Chr 17:2-43 verses75%
2 He placed troops in all of Judah’s fortified cities and posted garrisons throughout the land of Judah and in the cities of Ephraim that his father Asa had seized.
3 The LORD was with Jehoshaphat because he followed in his ancestor David’s footsteps at the beginning of his reign. He did not seek the Baals,
4 but instead sought the God of his ancestors and obeyed his commands, unlike the Israelites.
- 73%
19 everyone who has determined to follow God, the LORD God of his ancestors, even if he is not ceremonially clean according to the standards of the temple.”
- 2 Chr 34:32-332 verses72%
32 He made all who were in Jerusalem and Benjamin agree to it. The residents of Jerusalem acted in accordance with the covenant of God, the God of their ancestors.
33 Josiah removed all the detestable idols from all the areas belonging to the Israelites and encouraged all who were in Israel to worship the LORD their God. Throughout the rest of his reign they did not turn aside from following the LORD God of their ancestors.
- 72%
33 I am taking the kingdom from him because they have abandoned me and worshiped the Sidonian goddess Astarte, the Moabite god Chemosh, and the Ammonite god Milcom. They have not followed my instructions by doing what I approve and obeying my rules and regulations, like Solomon’s father David did.
- 72%
40 But they pay no attention; instead they observe their earlier practices.
- 71%
34 The rest of the events of Jehoshaphat’s reign, from start to finish, are recorded in the Annals of Jehu son of Hanani, which are included in the Scroll of the Kings of Israel.
- 71%
2 Now the people were offering sacrifices at the high places, because in those days a temple had not yet been built to honor the LORD.
- 71%
7 Don’t be like your fathers and brothers who were unfaithful to the LORD God of their ancestors, provoking him to destroy them, as you can see.
- 70%
3 He followed all the sinful practices of his father before him. He was not wholeheartedly devoted to the LORD his God, as his ancestor David had been.
- 70%
31 But Jehu did not carefully and wholeheartedly obey the law of the LORD God of Israel. He did not repudiate the sins which Jeroboam had encouraged Israel to commit.
- 70%
61 May you demonstrate wholehearted devotion to the LORD our God by following his rules and obeying his commandments, as you are presently doing.”
- 70%
25 In every city throughout Judah he set up high places to offer sacrifices to other gods. He angered the LORD God of his ancestors.
- 70%
2 Their children are always thinking about their altars and their sacred poles dedicated to the goddess Asherah, set up beside the green trees on the high hills
- 70%
6 For our fathers were unfaithful; they did what is evil in the sight of the LORD our God and abandoned him! They turned away from the LORD’s dwelling place and rejected him.
- 70%
29 But each of these nations made its own gods and put them in the shrines on the high places that the people of Samaria had made. Each nation did this in the cities where they lived.
- 70%
8 Then they will not be like their ancestors, who were a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that was not committed and faithful to God.
- 70%
17 But they did not obey their leaders. Instead they prostituted themselves to other gods and worshiped them. They quickly turned aside from the path their ancestors had walked. Their ancestors had obeyed the LORD’s commands, but they did not.
- 70%
18 O LORD God of our ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, always maintain these motives of your people and keep them devoted to you.
- 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 his twelfth year he began ridding Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, Asherah poles, idols, and images.
- 70%
19 Josiah also removed all the shrines on the high places in the cities of Samaria. The kings of Israel had made them and angered the LORD. He did to them what he had done to the high place in Bethel.
- 70%
3 He removed the pagan altars and the high places, smashed the sacred pillars, and cut down the Asherah poles.
- 69%
9 He commanded them:“Carry out your duties with respect for the LORD, with honesty, and with pure motives.
- 69%
10 To this day your people have shown no contrition! They have not revered me nor followed the laws and statutes I commanded you and your ancestors.’
- 69%
14 But they did not pay attention and were as stubborn as their ancestors, who had not trusted the LORD their God.
- 69%
45 The rest of the events of Jehoshaphat’s reign, including his successes and military exploits, are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Judah.
- 69%
16 Those among all the Israelite tribes who were determined to worship the LORD God of Israel followed them to Jerusalem to sacrifice to the LORD God of their ancestors.
- 69%
19 Now seek the LORD your God wholeheartedly and with your entire being! Get up and build the sanctuary of the LORD God! Then you can bring the ark of the LORD’s covenant and the holy items dedicated to God’s service into the temple that is built to honor the LORD.”
- 69%
26 Yet the LORD’s great anger against Judah did not subside; he was still infuriated by all the things Manasseh had done.
- 69%
18 They abandoned the temple of the LORD God of their ancestors, and worshiped the Asherah poles and idols. Because of this sinful activity, God was angry with Judah and Jerusalem.
- 69%
24 I did this because they did not observe my regulations, they rejected my statutes, they desecrated my Sabbaths, and their eyes were fixed on their fathers’ idols.
- 69%
10 The LORD put fear into all the kingdoms surrounding Judah; they did not make war with Jehoshaphat.
- 2 Chr 21:11-122 verses69%
11 He also built high places on the hills of Judah; he encouraged the residents of Jerusalem to be unfaithful to the LORD and led Judah away from the LORD.
12 Jehoram received this letter from Elijah the prophet:“This is what the LORD God of your ancestor David says:‘You have not followed in the footsteps of your father Jehoshaphat and of King Asa of Judah,
- 69%
11 They burned incense on all the high places just like the nations whom the LORD had driven away from before them. Their evil practices made the LORD angry.