2 Kings 15:35

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. He built the Upper Gate to the LORD’s temple.

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  • 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 Chr 23:20 : 20 He summoned the officers of the units of hundreds, the nobles, the rulers of the people, and all the people of the land, and he then led the king down from the LORD’s temple. They entered the royal palace through the Upper Gate and seated the king on the royal throne.
  • 2 Chr 27:3-9 : 3 He built the Upper Gate to the LORD’s temple and did a lot of work on the wall in the area known as Ophel. 4 He built cities in the hill country of Judah and fortresses and towers in the forests. 5 He launched a military campaign against the king of the Ammonites and defeated them. That year the Ammonites paid him 100 talents of silver, 10,000 cors of wheat, and 10,000 cors of barley. The Ammonites also paid this same amount of annual tribute the next two years. 6 Jotham grew powerful because he was determined to please the LORD his God. 7 The rest of the events of Jotham’s reign, including all his military campaigns and his accomplishments, are recorded in the scroll of the kings of Israel and Judah. 8 He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned for sixteen years in Jerusalem. 9 Jotham passed away and was buried in the City of David. His son Ahaz replaced him as king.
  • 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.”
  • 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 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.

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  • 2 Kgs 15:3-5
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    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.

    5The LORD afflicted the king with an illness; he suffered from a skin disease until the day he died. He lived in separate quarters, while his son Jotham was in charge of the palace and ruled over the people of the land.

  • 2 Kgs 14:3-4
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    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 12:3
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    3But the high places were not eliminated; the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense on the high places.

  • 2 Chr 27:2-3
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    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.

    3He built the Upper Gate to the LORD’s temple and did a lot of work on the wall in the area known as Ophel.

  • 2 Kgs 15:36
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    36The rest of the events of Jotham’s reign, including his accomplishments, are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Judah.

  • 2 Chr 20:33
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    33However, the high places were not eliminated; the people were still not devoted to the God of their ancestors.

  • 2 Chr 33:15-17
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    15He 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.

    16He 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.

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

  • 1 Kgs 22:43
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    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 Kgs 15:34
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    34He did what the LORD approved, just as his father Uzziah had done.

  • 2 Chr 17:6
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    6He was committed to following the LORD; he even removed the high places and Asherah poles from Judah.

  • 2 Chr 33:3-5
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    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.

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

    5In the two courtyards of the LORD’s temple he built altars for all the stars in the sky.

  • 1 Kgs 3:2
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    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.

  • 2 Chr 28:25
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    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 15:17
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    17The high places were not eliminated from Israel, yet Asa was wholeheartedly devoted to the LORD throughout his lifetime.

  • 1 Kgs 15:14
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    14The high places were not eliminated, yet Asa was wholeheartedly devoted to the LORD throughout his lifetime.

  • 2 Kgs 21:3-5
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    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.”

    5In the two courtyards of the LORD’s temple he built altars for all the stars in the sky.

  • 2 Kgs 16:3-4
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    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 Kgs 17:11
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    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 32:12
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    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 23:19
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    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 23:15
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    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 Chr 28:4
    72%

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

  • 2 Chr 14:3
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    3He removed the pagan altars and the high places, smashed the sacred pillars, and cut down the Asherah poles.

  • 2 Chr 34:3
    71%

    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 26:16
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    16But once he became powerful, his pride destroyed him. He disobeyed the LORD his God. He entered the LORD’s temple to offer incense on the incense altar.

  • 2 Chr 14:5
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    5He removed the high places and the incense altars from all the cities of Judah. The kingdom had rest under his rule.

  • 1 Kgs 12:31
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    31He built temples on the high places and appointed as priests common people who were not Levites.

  • 2 Kgs 23:8
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    8He brought all the priests from the cities of Judah and ruined the high places where the priests had offered sacrifices, from Geba to Beer Sheba. He tore down the high place of the goat idols situated at the entrance of the gate of Joshua, the city official, on the left side of the city gate.

  • Jer 19:13
    71%

    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 Chr 27:6
    71%

    6Jotham grew powerful because he was determined to please the LORD his God.

  • 2 Chr 21:11
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    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 16:18
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    18He also removed the Sabbath awning that had been built in the temple and the king’s outer entranceway to the LORD’s temple, on account of the king of Assyria.

  • 2 Kgs 17:9
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    9The 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.

  • 2 Chr 19:3
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    3Nevertheless you have done some good things; you removed the Asherah poles from the land and you were determined to follow God.”

  • 2 Kgs 23:12-13
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    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.

  • 2 Kgs 15:32
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    32Jotham’s Reign over Judah In the second year of the reign of Israel’s King Pekah son of Remaliah, Uzziah’s son Jotham became king over Judah.

  • 2 Chr 34:5
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    5He burned the bones of the pagan priests on their altars; he purified Judah and Jerusalem.

  • Jer 32:35
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    35They built places of worship for the god Baal in the valley of Ben Hinnom so that they could sacrifice their sons and daughters to the god Molech. Such a disgusting practice was not something I commanded them to do! It never even entered my mind to command them to do such a thing! So Judah is certainly liable for punishment.’