2 Chronicles 33:17
However, the people continued to offer sacrifices at the high places, but only to the LORD their God.
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- 2 Chr 32:12 : 12 Hezekiah is the one who eliminated the LORD’s high places and altars and then told Judah and Jerusalem,“At one altar you must worship and offer sacrifices.”
- 1 Kgs 22:43 : 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 15:4 : 4 But the high places were not eliminated; the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense on the high places.
- 2 Chr 15:17 : 17 The high places were not eliminated from Israel, yet Asa was wholeheartedly devoted to the LORD throughout his lifetime.
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3 But the high places were not eliminated; the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense on the high places.
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4 But the high places were not eliminated; the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense on the high places.
- 2 Chr 33:15-162 verses77%
15 He removed the foreign gods and images from the LORD’s temple and all the altars he had built on the hill of the LORD’s temple and in Jerusalem; he threw them outside the city.
16 He erected the altar of the LORD and offered on it peace offerings and thank offerings. He told the people of Judah to serve the LORD God of Israel.
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33 However, the high places were not eliminated; the people were still not devoted to the God of their ancestors.
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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.
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4 But the high places were not eliminated; the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense on the high places.
- 1 Kgs 3:2-43 verses75%
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.
3 Solomon demonstrated his loyalty to the LORD by following the practices of his father David, except that he offered sacrifices and burned incense on the high places.
4 The king went to Gibeon to offer sacrifices, for it had the most prominent of the high places. Solomon would offer up a thousand burnt sacrifices on the altar there.
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32 At the same time they worshiped the LORD. They appointed some of their own people to serve as priests in the shrines on the high places.
33 They were worshiping the LORD and at the same time serving their own gods in accordance with the practices of the nations from which they had been deported.
- 2 Chr 33:18-192 verses72%
18 The rest of the events of Manasseh’s reign, including his prayer to his God and the words the prophets spoke to him in the name of the LORD God of Israel, are recorded in the Annals of the Kings of Israel.
19 The Annals of the Prophets include his prayer, give an account of how the LORD responded to it, record all his sins and unfaithful acts, and identify the sites where he built high places and erected Asherah poles and idols before he humbled himself.
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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.
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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.
12 They worshiped the disgusting idols in blatant disregard of the LORD’s command.
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12 Hezekiah is the one who eliminated the LORD’s high places and altars and then told Judah and Jerusalem,“At one altar you must worship and offer sacrifices.”
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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.
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4 The king and all the people were presenting sacrifices to the LORD.
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4 He offered sacrifices and burned incense on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.
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6 He was committed to following the LORD; he even removed the high places and Asherah poles from Judah.
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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.
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3 He rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed; he set up altars for the Baals and made Asherah poles. He bowed down to all the stars in the sky and worshiped them.
4 He built altars in the LORD’s temple, about which the LORD had said,“Jerusalem will be my permanent home.”
5 In the two courtyards of the LORD’s temple he built altars for all the stars in the sky.
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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.
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23 If we have built an altar for ourselves to turn back from following the LORD by making burnt sacrifices and grain offerings on it, or by offering tokens of peace on it, the LORD himself will punish us.
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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.
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17 The high places were not eliminated from Israel, yet Asa was wholeheartedly devoted to the LORD throughout his lifetime.
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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
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62 Solomon Dedicates the Temple The king and all Israel with him were presenting sacrifices to the LORD.
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3 Nevertheless you have done some good things; you removed the Asherah poles from the land and you were determined to follow God.”
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35 The LORD made a covenant with them and instructed them,“You must not worship other gods. Do not bow down to them, serve them, or offer sacrifices to them.
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8 “You are to say to them:‘Any man from the house of Israel or from the resident foreigners who live in their midst, who offers a burnt offering or a sacrifice
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4 So the Israelites removed the Baals and images of Ashtoreth. They served only the LORD.
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9 The Israelites said things about the LORD their God that were not right. They built high places in all their towns, from watchtower to fortified city.
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9 (Now the priests of the high places did not go up to the altar of the LORD in Jerusalem, but they did eat unleavened cakes among their fellow priests.)
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28 I brought them to the land which I swore to give them, but whenever they saw any high hill or leafy tree, they offered their sacrifices there and presented the offerings that provoke me to anger. They offered their soothing aroma there and poured out their drink offerings.
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1 When all this was over, the Israelites who were in the cities of Judah went out and smashed the sacred pillars, cut down the Asherah poles, and demolished all the high places and altars throughout Judah, Benjamin, Ephraim, and Manasseh. Then all the Israelites returned to their own homes in their cities.
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31 He built temples on the high places and appointed as priests common people who were not Levites.
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4 but instead sought the God of his ancestors and obeyed his commands, unlike the Israelites.
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20 “Whoever sacrifices to a god other than the LORD alone must be utterly destroyed.
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17 They passed their sons and daughters through the fire, and practiced divination and omen reading. They committed themselves to doing evil in the sight of the LORD and made him angry.
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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.
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4 He offered sacrifices and burned incense on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.
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19 Judah also failed to keep the commandments of the LORD their God; they followed Israel’s example.
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4 He ordered Judah to seek the LORD God of their ancestors and to observe his law and commands.
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18 Nor will the Levitical priests ever lack someone to stand before me and continually offer up burnt offerings, sacrifice cereal offerings, and offer the other sacrifices.”’”
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14 The high places were not eliminated, yet Asa was wholeheartedly devoted to the LORD throughout his lifetime.