4Save that the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burnt incense still on the high places.
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And he walked in all the ways of Asa his father; he turned not aside from it, doing that which was right in the eyes of the LORD: nevertheless the high places were not taken away; for the people offered and burnt incense yet in the high places.
Howbeit the high places were not taken away: as yet the people did sacrifice and burnt incense on the high places.
But the high places were not removed: nevertheless Asa's heart was perfect with the LORD all his days.
Hath not the same Hezekiah taken away his high places and his altars, and commanded Judah and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall worship before one altar, and burn incense upon it?
But the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-7)This is a short account of the reign of Azariah. 1. Most of it is general, and the same that has been given of others; he began young and reigned long (2 Kgs. 15:2), did, for the most part, that which was right, 2 Kgs. 15:3 (it was happy for the kingdom that a good reign was a long one), only he had not zeal and courage enough to take away the high places, 2 Kgs. 15:4. 2. That which is peculiar, 2…
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