2 Kings 14:4

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 12:3 : 3 But the high places were not eliminated; the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense on the high places.
  • 2 Kgs 16:4 : 4 He offered sacrifices and burned incense on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.
  • 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 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.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 2 Kgs 15:3-4
    2 verses
    92%

    3He did what the LORD approved, just as his father Amaziah had done.

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

  • 2 Kgs 12:2-3
    2 verses
    89%

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

    3But the high places were not eliminated; the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense on the high places.

  • 2 Kgs 15:34-35
    2 verses
    84%

    34He did what the LORD approved, just as his father Uzziah had done.

    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 Kgs 14:3
    80%

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

  • 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 20:33
    79%

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

  • 2 Chr 28:2-4
    3 verses
    77%

    2He followed in the footsteps of the kings of Israel; he also made images of the Baals.

    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 Kgs 16:3-4
    2 verses
    77%

    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.

  • 1 Kgs 15:14
    76%

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

  • 2 Chr 33:17
    76%

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

  • 2 Chr 15:17
    76%

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

  • 2 Chr 17:6
    74%

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

  • 2 Chr 27:2
    74%

    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 13:11-12
    2 verses
    73%

    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.

    12The rest of the events of Joash’s reign, including all his accomplishments and his successful war with King Amaziah of Judah, are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Israel.

  • 2 Kgs 17:11
    73%

    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.

  • 2 Chr 14:3-5
    3 verses
    72%

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

    4He ordered Judah to seek the LORD God of their ancestors and to observe his law and commands.

    5He removed the high places and the incense altars from all the cities of Judah. The kingdom had rest under his rule.

  • 1 Kgs 3:2-3
    2 verses
    72%

    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 Chr 34:3-5
    3 verses
    72%

    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.

    4He ordered the altars of the Baals to be torn down, and broke the incense altars that were above them. He smashed the Asherah poles, idols and images, crushed them up and sprinkled the dust over the tombs of those who had sacrificed to them.

    5He burned the bones of the pagan priests on their altars; he purified Judah and Jerusalem.

  • 2 Kgs 14:5
    72%

    5When he had secured control of the kingdom, he executed the servants who had assassinated his father.

  • 2 Chr 24:4
    71%

    4Later, Joash was determined to repair the LORD’s temple.

  • 2 Kgs 14:15
    71%

    15The rest of the events of Jehoash’s reign, including all his accomplishments and his successful war with King Amaziah of Judah, are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Israel.

  • 2 Chr 32:12
    71%

    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 Chr 28:25
    71%

    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 24:2
    71%

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

  • 2 Kgs 21:3-4
    2 verses
    70%

    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.

    4He built altars in the LORD’s temple, about which the LORD had said,“Jerusalem will be my home.”

  • Jer 19:4
    70%

    4I will do so because these people have rejected me and have defiled this place. They have offered sacrifices in it to other gods which neither they nor their ancestors nor the kings of Judah knew anything about. They have filled it with the blood of innocent children.

  • 2 Kgs 12:18
    70%

    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 13:2
    70%

    2He did evil in the sight of the LORD. He continued in the sinful ways of Jeroboam son of Nebat who had encouraged Israel to sin; he did not repudiate those sins.

  • 2 Chr 19:3
    70%

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

  • 2 Kgs 13:6
    70%

    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 14:24
    70%

    24He 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.

  • 2 Chr 33:3
    70%

    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 Kgs 23:19
    70%

    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 Chr 17:4
    70%

    4but instead sought the God of his ancestors and obeyed his commands, unlike the Israelites.

  • 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 Kgs 3:2
    69%

    2He did evil in the sight of the LORD, but not to the same degree as his father and mother. He did remove the sacred pillar of Baal that his father had made.

  • 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.