2 Kings 12:3

World English Bible (2000)

However the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.

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Referenced Verses

  • 2 Kgs 14:4 : 4 However the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
  • 2 Kgs 15:35 : 35 However the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burned incense in the high places. He built the upper gate of the house of Yahweh.
  • 2 Kgs 18:4 : 4 He removed the high places, and broke the pillars, and cut down the Asherah: and he broke in pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made; for to those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it; and he called it Nehushtan.
  • 1 Kgs 15:14 : 14 But the high places were not taken away: nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect with Yahweh all his days.
  • 1 Kgs 22:43 : 43 He walked in all the way of Asa his father; He didn't turn aside from it, doing that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh: however the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
  • 2 Chr 31:4 : 4 Moreover he commanded the people who lived in Jerusalem to give the portion of the priests and the Levites, that they might give themselves to the law of Yahweh.
  • Jer 2:20 : 20 "For of old time I have broken your yoke, and burst your bonds; and you said, 'I will not serve;' for on every high hill and under every green tree you bowed yourself, playing the prostitute.

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  • 2 Kgs 14:3-4
    2 verses
    89%

    3 He did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, yet not like David his father: he did according to all that Joash his father had done.

    4 However the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.

  • 2 Kgs 15:4
    88%

    4 However the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.

  • 2 Kgs 15:35
    84%

    35 However the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burned incense in the high places. He built the upper gate of the house of Yahweh.

  • 2 Chr 20:33
    81%

    33 However the high places were not taken away; neither as yet had the people set their hearts to the God of their fathers.

  • 1 Kgs 22:43
    79%

    43 He walked in all the way of Asa his father; He didn't turn aside from it, doing that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh: however the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.

  • 2 Chr 33:17
    79%

    17 Nevertheless the people sacrificed still in the high places, but only to Yahweh their God.

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

    11 and there they burnt incense in all the high places, as did the nations whom Yahweh carried away before them; and they worked wicked things to provoke Yahweh to anger;

    12 and they served idols, of which Yahweh had said to them, "You shall not do this thing."

  • 1 Kgs 3:2-3
    2 verses
    76%

    2 Only the people sacrificed in the high places, because there was no house built for the name of Yahweh until those days.

    3 Solomon loved Yahweh, walking in the statutes of David his father: only he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.

  • 2 Kgs 12:2
    75%

    2 Jehoash did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh all his days in which Jehoiada the priest instructed him.

  • 2 Kgs 12:6-8
    3 verses
    75%

    6 But it was so, that in the three and twentieth year of king Jehoash the priests had not repaired the breaches of the house.

    7 Then king Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest, and for the [other] priests, and said to them, "Why don't you repair the breaches of the house? Now therefore take no more money from your treasurers, but deliver it for the breaches of the house."

    8 The priests consented that they should take no [more] money from the people, neither repair the breaches of the house.

  • 2 Chr 15:17
    74%

    17 But the high places were not taken away out of Israel: nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect all his days.

  • 2 Chr 32:12
    74%

    12 Hasn't the same Hezekiah taken away his high places and his altars, and commanded Judah and Jerusalem, saying, 'You shall worship before one altar, and on it you shall burn incense?'

  • 2 Kgs 16:3-4
    2 verses
    74%

    3 But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yes, and made his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the nations, whom Yahweh cast out from before the children of Israel.

    4 He sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.

  • 2 Chr 28:3-4
    2 verses
    73%

    3 Moreover he burnt incense in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and burnt his children in the fire, according to the abominations of the nations whom Yahweh cast out before the children of Israel.

    4 He sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.

  • 2 Chr 17:6
    73%

    6 His heart was lifted up in the ways of Yahweh: and furthermore he took away the high places and the Asherim out of Judah.

  • 1 Kgs 15:14
    73%

    14 But the high places were not taken away: nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect with Yahweh all his days.

  • 1 Kgs 12:31
    73%

    31 He made houses of high places, and made priests from among all the people, who were not of the sons of Levi.

  • 2 Kgs 12:4
    73%

    4 Jehoash said to the priests, "All the money of the holy things that is brought into the house of Yahweh, in current money, the money of the persons for whom each man is rated, and all the money that it comes into any man's heart to bring into the house of Yahweh,

  • 2 Chr 33:3
    72%

    3 For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down; and he reared up altars for the Baals, and made Asheroth, and worshiped all the army of the sky, and served them.

  • 2 Chr 28:25
    72%

    25 In every city of Judah he made high places to burn incense to other gods, and provoked to anger Yahweh, the God of his fathers.

  • 2 Chr 19:3
    72%

    3 Nevertheless there are good things found in you, in that you have put away the Asheroth out of the land, and have set your heart to seek God."

  • 2 Kgs 12:18
    71%

    18 Jehoash king of Judah took all the holy things that Jehoshaphat and Jehoram and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of Judah, had dedicated, and his own holy things, and all the gold that was found in the treasures of the house of Yahweh, and of the king's house, and sent it to Hazael king of Syria: and he went away from Jerusalem.

  • 2 Kgs 23:9
    71%

    9 Nevertheless the priests of the high places didn't come up to the altar of Yahweh in Jerusalem, but they ate unleavened bread among their brothers.

  • 2 Kgs 21:3
    71%

    3 For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, and made an Asherah, as did Ahab king of Israel, and worshiped all the army of the sky, and served them.

  • 2 Kgs 23:19
    71%

    19 All the houses also of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke [Yahweh] to anger, Josiah took away, and did to them according to all the acts that he had done in Bethel.

  • 2 Kgs 13:6
    71%

    6 Nevertheless they didn't depart from the sins of the house of Jeroboam, with which he made Israel to sin, but walked therein: and there remained the Asherah also in Samaria.)

  • 2 Kgs 12:16
    70%

    16 The money for the trespass offerings, and the money for the sin offerings, was not brought into the house of Yahweh: it was the priests'.

  • Deut 12:13
    70%

    13 Take heed to yourself that you don't offer your burnt offerings in every place that you see;

  • 2 Chr 27:2
    70%

    2 He did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, according to all that his father Uzziah had done: however he didn't enter into the temple of Yahweh. The people did yet corruptly.

  • 2 Kgs 17:32
    70%

    32 So they feared Yahweh, and made to them from among themselves priests of the high places, who sacrificed for them in the houses of the high places.

  • 2 Chr 34:3
    70%

    3 For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father; and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the Asherim, and the engraved images, and the molten images.

  • 2 Chr 13:9
    70%

    9 Haven't you driven out the priests of Yahweh, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and made priests for yourselves after the ways of the peoples of [other] lands? so that whoever comes to consecrate himself with a young bull and seven rams, the same may be a priest of [those who are] no gods.

  • 1 Kgs 13:33
    70%

    33 After this thing Jeroboam didn't return from his evil way, but again made priests of the high places from among all the people. Whoever wanted to, he consecrated him, that there might be priests of the high places.

  • Jer 19:13
    70%

    13 and the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, which are defiled, shall be as the place of Topheth, even all the houses on whose roofs they have burned incense to all the army of the sky, and have poured out drink offerings to other gods.

  • 2 Kgs 13:11
    70%

    11 He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh; he didn't depart from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, with which he made Israel to sin; but he walked therein.

  • 2 Kgs 17:29
    70%

    29 However every nation made gods of their own, and put them in the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation in their cities in which they lived.

  • 2 Kgs 23:15
    69%

    15 Moreover the altar that was at Bethel, and the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had made, even that altar and the high place he broke down; and he burned the high place and beat it to dust, and burned the Asherah.

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

    12 The altars that were on the roof of the upper room of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of Yahweh, did the king break down, and beat [them] down from there, and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron.

    13 The high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mountain of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon, did the king defile.

  • Jer 17:2
    69%

    2 while their children remember their altars and their Asherim by the green trees on the high hills.

  • 2 Chr 14:3
    69%

    3 for he took away the foreign altars, and the high places, and broke down the pillars, and cut down the Asherim,

  • 2 Chr 21:11
    69%

    11 Moreover he made high places in the mountains of Judah, and made the inhabitants of Jerusalem to play the prostitute, and led Judah astray.

  • 2 Chr 24:2
    69%

    2 Joash did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh all the days of Jehoiada the priest.