2 Kings 12:3

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

But 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 Howbeit the high places were not taken away: as yet the people did sacrifice and burnt incense on the high places.
  • 2 Kgs 15:35 : 35 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.
  • 2 Kgs 18:4 : 4 He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for unto 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 removed: nevertheless Asa's heart was perfect with the LORD all his days.
  • 1 Kgs 22:43 : 43 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.
  • 2 Chr 31:4 : 4 Moreover he commanded the people that dwelt in Jerusalem to give the portion of the priests and the Levites, that they might be encouraged in the law of the LORD.
  • Jer 2:20 : 20 For of old time I have broken thy yoke, and burst thy bands; and thou saidst, I will not transgress; when upon every high hill and under every green tree thou wanderest, playing the harlot.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 2 Kgs 14:3-4
    2 verses
    89%

    3And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, yet not like David his father: he did according to all things as Joash his father did.

    4Howbeit the high places were not taken away: as yet the people did sacrifice and burnt incense on the high places.

  • 2 Kgs 15:4
    88%

    4Save that the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burnt incense still on the high places.

  • 2 Kgs 15:35
    84%

    35Howbeit 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.

  • 2 Chr 20:33
    81%

    33Howbeit the high places were not taken away: for as yet the people had not prepared their hearts unto the God of their fathers.

  • 1 Kgs 22:43
    79%

    43And 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.

  • 2 Chr 33:17
    79%

    17Nevertheless the people did sacrifice still in the high places, yet unto the LORD their God only.

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

    11And there they burnt incense in all the high places, as did the heathen whom the LORD carried away before them; and wrought wicked things to provoke the LORD to anger:

    12For they served idols, whereof the LORD had said unto them, Ye shall not do this thing.

  • 1 Kgs 3:2-3
    2 verses
    76%

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

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

  • 2 Kgs 12:2
    75%

    2And Jehoash did that which was right in the sight of the LORD all his days wherein Jehoiada the priest instructed him.

  • 2 Kgs 12:6-8
    3 verses
    75%

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

    7Then king Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest, and the other priests, and said unto them, Why repair ye not the breaches of the house? now therefore receive no more money of your acquaintance, but deliver it for the breaches of the house.

    8And the priests consented to receive no more money of the people, neither to repair the breaches of the house.

  • 2 Chr 15:17
    74%

    17But 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%

    12Hath 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?

  • 2 Kgs 16:3-4
    2 verses
    74%

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

    4And 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%

    3Moreover he burnt incense in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and burnt his children in the fire, after the abominations of the heathen whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel.

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

  • 2 Chr 17:6
    73%

    6And his heart was lifted up in the ways of the LORD: moreover he took away the high places and groves out of Judah.

  • 1 Kgs 15:14
    73%

    14But the high places were not removed: nevertheless Asa's heart was perfect with the LORD all his days.

  • 1 Kgs 12:31
    73%

    31And he made an house of high places, and made priests of the lowest of the people, which were not of the sons of Levi.

  • 2 Kgs 12:4
    73%

    4And Jehoash said to the priests, All the money of the dedicated things that is brought into the house of the LORD, even the money of every one that passeth the account, the money that every man is set at, and all the money that cometh into any man's heart to bring into the house of the LORD,

  • 2 Chr 33:3
    72%

    3For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down, and he reared up altars for Baalim, and made groves, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.

  • 2 Chr 28:25
    72%

    25And in every several city of Judah he made high places to burn incense unto other gods, and provoked to anger the LORD God of his fathers.

  • 2 Chr 19:3
    72%

    3Nevertheless there are good things found in thee, in that thou hast taken away the groves out of the land, and hast prepared thine heart to seek God.

  • 2 Kgs 12:18
    71%

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

  • 2 Kgs 23:9
    71%

    9Nevertheless the priests of the high places came not up to the altar of the LORD in Jerusalem, but they did eat of the unleavened bread among their brethren.

  • 2 Kgs 21:3
    71%

    3For he built up again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, and made a grove, as did Ahab king of Israel; and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.

  • 2 Kgs 23:19
    71%

    19And all the houses also of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke the LORD to anger, Josiah took away, and did to them according to all the acts that he had done in Beth-el.

  • 2 Kgs 13:6
    71%

    6Nevertheless they departed not from the sins of the house of Jeroboam, who made Israel sin, but walked therein: and there remained the grove also in Samaria.)

  • 2 Kgs 12:16
    70%

    16The trespass money and sin money was not brought into the house of the LORD: it was the priests'.

  • Deut 12:13
    70%

    13Take heed to thyself that thou offer not thy burnt offerings in every place that thou seest:

  • 2 Chr 27:2
    70%

    2And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father Uzziah did: howbeit he entered not into the temple of the LORD. And the people did yet corruptly.

  • 2 Kgs 17:32
    70%

    32So they feared the LORD, and made unto themselves of the lowest of them priests of the high places, which sacrificed for them in the houses of the high places.

  • 2 Chr 34:3
    70%

    3For 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 groves, and the carved images, and the molten images.

  • 2 Chr 13:9
    70%

    9Have ye not cast out the priests of the LORD, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and have made you priests after the manner of the nations of other lands? so that whosoever cometh to consecrate himself with a young bullock and seven rams, the same may be a priest of them that are no gods.

  • 1 Kgs 13:33
    70%

    33After this thing Jeroboam returned not from his evil way, but made again of the lowest of the people priests of the high places: whosoever would, he consecrated him, and he became one of the priests of the high places.

  • Jer 19:13
    70%

    13And the houses of usalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, shall be defiled as the place of Tophet, because of all the houses upon whose roofs they have burned incense unto all the host of heaven, and have poured out drink offerings unto other gods.

  • 2 Kgs 13:11
    70%

    11And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD; he departed not from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel sin: but he walked therein.

  • 2 Kgs 17:29
    70%

    29Howbeit 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 wherein they dwelt.

  • 2 Kgs 23:15
    69%

    15Moreover the altar that was at Beth-el, and the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had made, both that altar and the high place he brake down, and burned the high place, and stamped it small to powder, and burned the grove.

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

    12And the altars that were on the top of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the LORD, did the king beat down, and brake them down from thence, and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron.

    13And the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had builded for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Zidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon, did the king defile.

  • Jer 17:2
    69%

    2Whilst their children remember their altars and their groves by the green trees upon the high hills.

  • 2 Chr 14:3
    69%

    3For he took away the altars of the strange gods, and the high places, and brake down the images, and cut down the groves:

  • 2 Chr 21:11
    69%

    11Moreover he made high places in the mountains of Judah, and caused the inhabitants of Jerusalem to commit fornication, and compelled Judah thereto.

  • 2 Chr 24:2
    69%

    2And Joash did that which was right in the sight of the LORD all the days of Jehoiada the priest.