4Howbeit the high places were not taken away: as yet the people did sacrifice and burnt incense on the high places.
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But the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.
Howbeit the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burned incense still in the high places. He built the higher gate of the house of the LORD.
Save that the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burnt incense still on the high places.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-7)Amaziah, the son and successor of Joash, is the king whom here we have an account of. Let us take a view of him, I. In the temple; and there he acted, in some measure, well, like Joash, but not like David, 2 Kgs. 14:3. He began well, but did not persevere: He did that which was right in the sight of the Lord , kept up his attendance on God’s altars and his attention to God’s word, yet not like Dav…
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