2 Kings 12:3

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

But the high places were not eliminated; the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense on the high places.

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Referenced Verses

  • 2 Kgs 14:4 : 4 But the high places were not eliminated; the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense on the high places.
  • 2 Kgs 15:35 : 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.
  • 2 Kgs 18:4 : 4 He eliminated the high places, smashed the sacred pillars to bits, and cut down the Asherah pole. He also demolished the bronze serpent that Moses had made, for up to that time the Israelites had been offering incense to it; it was called Nehushtan.
  • 1 Kgs 15:14 : 14 The high places were not eliminated, yet Asa was wholeheartedly devoted to the LORD throughout his lifetime.
  • 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 Chr 31:4 : 4 He ordered the people living in Jerusalem to contribute the portion prescribed for the priests and Levites so they might be obedient to the law of the LORD.
  • Jer 2:20 : 20 The Lord Expresses His Exasperation at Judah’s Persistent Idolatry“Indeed, long ago you threw off my authority and refused to be subject to me. You said,‘I will not serve you.’ Instead, you gave yourself to other gods on every high hill and under every green tree, like a prostitute sprawls out before her lovers.

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  • 2 Kgs 14:3-4
    2 verses
    89%

    3He did what the LORD approved, but not like David his father. He followed the example of his father Joash.

    4But the high places were not eliminated; the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense on the high places.

  • 2 Kgs 15:4
    88%

    4But the high places were not eliminated; the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense on the high places.

  • 2 Kgs 15:35
    84%

    35But 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.

  • 2 Chr 20:33
    81%

    33However, the high places were not eliminated; the people were still not devoted to the God of their ancestors.

  • 1 Kgs 22:43
    79%

    43He 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 Chr 33:17
    79%

    17However, the people continued to offer sacrifices at the high places, but only to the LORD their God.

  • 2 Kgs 17:11-12
    2 verses
    76%

    11They 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.

    12They worshiped the disgusting idols in blatant disregard of the LORD’s command.

  • 1 Kgs 3:2-3
    2 verses
    76%

    2Now the people were offering sacrifices at the high places, because in those days a temple had not yet been built to honor the LORD.

    3Solomon 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.

  • 2 Kgs 12:2
    75%

    2Jehoash did what the LORD approved all his days when Jehoiada the priest taught him.

  • 2 Kgs 12:6-8
    3 verses
    75%

    6By the twenty-third year of King Jehoash’s reign the priests had still not repaired the damage to the temple.

    7So King Jehoash summoned Jehoiada the priest along with the other priests, and said to them,“Why have you not repaired the damage to the temple? Now, take no more silver from your treasurers unless you intend to use it to repair the damage.”

    8The priests agreed not to collect silver from the people and relieved themselves of personal responsibility for the temple repairs.

  • 2 Chr 15:17
    74%

    17The high places were not eliminated from Israel, yet Asa was wholeheartedly devoted to the LORD throughout his lifetime.

  • 2 Chr 32:12
    74%

    12Hezekiah 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.”

  • 2 Kgs 16:3-4
    2 verses
    74%

    3He followed in the footsteps of the kings of Israel. He passed his son through the fire, a horrible sin practiced by the nations whom the LORD drove out from before the Israelites.

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

  • 2 Chr 28:3-4
    2 verses
    73%

    3He offered sacrifices in the Valley of Ben Hinnom and passed his sons through the fire, a horrible sin practiced by the nations whom the LORD drove out before the Israelites.

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

  • 2 Chr 17:6
    73%

    6He was committed to following the LORD; he even removed the high places and Asherah poles from Judah.

  • 1 Kgs 15:14
    73%

    14The high places were not eliminated, yet Asa was wholeheartedly devoted to the LORD throughout his lifetime.

  • 1 Kgs 12:31
    73%

    31He built temples on the high places and appointed as priests common people who were not Levites.

  • 2 Kgs 12:4
    73%

    4Jehoash said to the priests,“I place at your disposal all the consecrated silver that has been brought to the LORD’s temple, including the silver collected from the census tax, the silver received from those who have made vows, and all the silver that people have voluntarily contributed to the LORD’s temple.

  • 2 Chr 33:3
    72%

    3He 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.

  • 2 Chr 28:25
    72%

    25In every city throughout Judah he set up high places to offer sacrifices to other gods. He angered the LORD God of his ancestors.

  • 2 Chr 19:3
    72%

    3Nevertheless you have done some good things; you removed the Asherah poles from the land and you were determined to follow God.”

  • 2 Kgs 12:18
    71%

    18King Jehoash of Judah collected all the sacred items that his ancestors Jehoshaphat, Jehoram, and Ahaziah, kings of Judah, had consecrated, as well as his own sacred items and all the gold that could be found in the treasuries of the LORD’s temple and the royal palace. He sent it all to King Hazael of Syria, who then withdrew from Jerusalem.

  • 2 Kgs 23:9
    71%

    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.)

  • 2 Kgs 21:3
    71%

    3He rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed; he set up altars for Baal and made an Asherah pole just like King Ahab of Israel had done. He bowed down to all the stars in the sky and worshiped them.

  • 2 Kgs 23:19
    71%

    19Josiah 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.

  • 2 Kgs 13:6
    71%

    6But they did not repudiate the sinful ways of the family of Jeroboam, who encouraged Israel to sin; they continued in those sins. There was even an Asherah pole standing in Samaria.

  • 2 Kgs 12:16
    70%

    16(The silver collected in conjunction with reparation offerings and sin offerings was not brought to the LORD’s temple; it belonged to the priests.)

  • Deut 12:13
    70%

    13Make sure you do not offer burnt offerings in any place you wish,

  • 2 Chr 27:2
    70%

    2He did what the LORD approved, just as his father Uzziah had done.(He did not, however, have the audacity to enter the temple.) Yet the people were still sinning.

  • 2 Kgs 17:32
    70%

    32At 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.

  • 2 Chr 34:3
    70%

    3In 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.

  • 2 Chr 13:9
    70%

    9But you banished the LORD’s priests, Aaron’s descendants, and the Levites, and appointed your own priests just as the surrounding nations do! Anyone who comes to consecrate himself with a young bull or seven rams becomes a priest of these fake gods!

  • 1 Kgs 13:33
    70%

    33A Prophet Announces the End of Jeroboam’s Dynasty After this happened, Jeroboam still did not change his evil ways; he continued to appoint common people as priests at the high places. Anyone who wanted the job he consecrated as a priest.

  • Jer 19:13
    70%

    13The houses in Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah will be defiled by dead bodies just like this place, Topheth. For they offered sacrifice to the stars and poured out drink offerings to other gods on the roofs of those houses.’”

  • 2 Kgs 13:11
    70%

    11He did evil in the sight of the LORD. He did not repudiate the sinful ways of Jeroboam son of Nebat who encouraged Israel to sin; he continued in those sins.

  • 2 Kgs 17:29
    70%

    29But 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.

  • 2 Kgs 23:15
    69%

    15He also tore down the altar in Bethel at the high place made by Jeroboam son of Nebat, who encouraged Israel to sin. He burned all the combustible items at that high place and crushed them to dust; including the Asherah pole.

  • 2 Kgs 23:12-13
    2 verses
    69%

    12The king tore down the altars the kings of Judah had set up on the roof of Ahaz’s upper room, as well as the altars Manasseh had set up in the two courtyards of the LORD’s temple. He crushed them up and threw the dust in the Kidron Valley.

    13The king ruined the high places east of Jerusalem, south of the Mount of Destruction, that King Solomon of Israel had built for the detestable Sidonian goddess Astarte, the detestable Moabite god Chemosh, and the horrible Ammonite god Milcom.

  • Jer 17:2
    69%

    2Their 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

  • 2 Chr 14:3
    69%

    3He removed the pagan altars and the high places, smashed the sacred pillars, and cut down the Asherah poles.

  • 2 Chr 21:11
    69%

    11He 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.

  • 2 Chr 24:2
    69%

    2Joash did what the LORD approved throughout the lifetime of Jehoiada the priest.