2 kings 12:3 but the high places were not taken away the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places

2 Kings 12:3

New American Standard Bible (NASB ©1995) [2]
— Only the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.
King James Version (KJV 1769) [2]
— But the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
English Revised Version (ERV 1885)
— Howbeit the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
American Standard Version (ASV 1901) [2]
— Howbeit the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
Webster's Revision of the KJB (WEB 1833)
— But the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
Darby's Translation (DBY 1890)
— Only, the high places were not removed: the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR 1902)
— save only, that, the high places, took they not away,—still were the people sacrificing and burning incense in the high places.
Young's Literal Translation (YLT 1898)
— only, the high places have not turned aside, still are the people sacrificing and making perfume in high places.
Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision (DR 1750)
— But yet he took not away the high places: for the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
Geneva Bible (GNV 1560)
— But the hie places were not taken away: for the people offred yet and burnt incense in the hie places.
Original King James Bible (AV 1611) [2]
— But the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed, and burnt incense in the high places.
Lamsa Bible (1957)
— But the temples of idols were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.
Brenton Greek Septuagint (LXX, Restored Names)
— Only there were not [any] of the high places removed, and the people still sacrificed there, and burned incense on the high places.
Full Hebrew Names / Holy Name KJV (2008) [2] [3]
— But the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.

But x7535

(7535) Complement
רַק
raq
{rak}

The same as H7534 as a noun; properly leanness, that is, (figuratively) limitation; only adverbially merely, or conjugationally although.

the high places 1116

{1116} Prime
בָּמָה
bamah
{bam-maw'}

From an unused root (meaning to be high); an elevation.

were not x3808

(3808) Complement
לֹא
lo'
{lo}

lo; a primitive particle; not (the simple or abstract negation); by implication no; often used with other particles.

taken away: 5493

{5493} Prime
סוּר
cuwr
{soor}

A primitive root; to turn off (literally or figuratively).

z8804

<8804> Grammar

Stem - Qal (See H8851)
Mood - Perfect (See H8816)
Count - 12562

the people 5971

{5971} Prime
עַם
`am
{am}

From H6004; a people (as a congregated unit); specifically a tribe (as those of Israel); hence (collectively) troops or attendants; figuratively a flock.

still x5750

(5750) Complement
עוֹד
`owd
{ode}

From H5749; properly iteration or continuance; used only adverbially (with or without preposition), again, repeatedly, still, more.

sacrificed 2076

{2076} Prime
זָבַח
zabach
{zaw-bakh'}

A primitive root; to slaughter an animal (usually in sacrifice).

z8764

<8764> Grammar

Stem - Piel (See H8840)
Mood - Participle (See H8813)
Count - 685

and burnt incense 6999

{6999} Prime
מֻקְטָר
qatar
{kaw-tar'}

A primitive root (rather identical with H7000 through the idea of fumigation in a close place and perhaps thus driving out the occupants); to smoke, that is, turn into fragrance by fire (especially as an act of worship).

z8764

<8764> Grammar

Stem - Piel (See H8840)
Mood - Participle (See H8813)
Count - 685

in the high places. 1116

{1116} Prime
בָּמָה
bamah
{bam-maw'}

From an unused root (meaning to be high); an elevation.

2 Kings 12:3

_ _ But the high places were not taken away — The popular fondness for the private and disorderly rites performed in the groves and recesses of hills was so inveterate that even the most powerful monarchs had been unable to accomplish their suppression; no wonder that in the early reign of a young king, and after the gross irregularities that had been allowed during the maladministration of Athaliah, the difficulty of putting an end to the superstitions associated with “the high places” was greatly increased.

See commentary on 2 Kings 12:1-3.

2 Kings 12:3

Burnt incense — To the true God.

2 Kings 12:3

But ^(b) the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.

^(b) So hard a thing it is for them, that are in authority, to be brought to the perfect obedience of God.

2 Kings 14:4 Howbeit the high places were not taken away: as yet the people did sacrifice and burnt incense on the high places.

2 Kings 18:4 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 Kings 15:14 But the high places were not removed: nevertheless Asa's heart was perfect with the LORD all his days.

1 Kings 22:43 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 Chronicles 31:4 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.

Jeremiah 2:20 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.

1K 15:14; 22:43. 2K 14:4; 18:4. 2Ch 31:4. Jr 2:20.