2 Kings 15:4
Good News Translation
But the pagan places of worship were not destroyed, and the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense there.

New Revised Standard Version
Nevertheless the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and made offerings on the high places.

Contemporary English Version
But Azariah did not destroy the local shrines, and they were still used as places for offering sacrifices.

New American Bible
though the high places did not disappear, and the people continued to sacrifice and to burn incense on the high places.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But the high places he did not destroy, for the people sacrificed, and burnt incense in the high places.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But the high places he did not destroy, for the people sacrificed, and burnt incense in the high places.

the high places

2 Kings 15:35 But the high places he took not away: the people still sacrificed, and burnt incense in the high places: he built the highest gate of the house of the Lord.

2 Kings 14:4 But this only, that he took not away the high places; for yet the people sacrificed, and burnt incense in the high places:

2 Kings 18:4 He destroyed the high places, and broke the statues in pieces, and cut down the groves, and broke the brazen serpent, which Moses had made: for till that time the children of Israel burnt incense to it: and he called its name Nohestan.

1 Kings 15:14 But the high places he did not take away. Nevertheless, the heart of Asa was perfect with the Lord all his days:

1 Kings 22:43 And he walked in all the way of Asa, his father, and he declined not from it: and he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord. [44] Nevertheless, he took not away the high places for as yet the people offered sacrifice, and burnt incense in the high places.

2 Chronicles 17:6 And when his heart had taken courage for the ways of the Lord, he took away also the high places and the groves out of Juda.

2 Chronicles 32:12 Is it not this same Ezechias, that hath destroyed his high places, and his altars, and commanded Juda and Jerusalem, saying: You shall worship before one altar, and upon it you shall burn incense?

2 Chronicles 34:3 And in the eighth year of his reign, when he was yet a boy, he began to seek the God of his father David: and in the twelfth year after he began to reign, he cleansed Juda and Jerusalem from the high places, and the groves, and the idols, and the graven things.

Context
Azariah Reigns in Judah
3And he did that which was pleasing before the Lord, according to all that his father, Amasias, had done. 4But the high places he did not destroy, for the people sacrificed, and burnt incense in the high places.5And the Lord struck the king, so that he was a leper unto the day of his death, and he dwelt in a free house apart: but Joatham, the king's son, governed the palace, and judged the people of the land.…
Cross References
2 Kings 12:3
But yet he took not away the high places: for the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.

2 Kings 15:3
And he did that which was pleasing before the Lord, according to all that his father, Amasias, had done.

2 Kings 15:34
And he did that which was right before the Lord: according to all that his father Ozias had done, so did he.

2 Kings 15:3
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