2 Kings 12:3
Good News Translation
However, 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 continued to sacrifice and make offerings on the high places.

Contemporary English Version
But even Joash 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; the people continued to sacrifice and to burn incense on the high places.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But yet he took not away the high places: for the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But yet he took not away the high places: for the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.

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 31:4 He commanded also the people that dwelt in Jerusalem, to give to the priests, and the Levites their portion, that they might attend to the law of the Lord.

Jeremiah 2:20 Of old time thou hast broken my yoke, thou hast burst my bands, and thou saidst: I will not serve. For on every high hill, and under every green tree thou didst prostitute thyself.

Context
Joash Repairs the Temple
2And Joas did that which was right before the Lord all the days that Joiada, the priest, taught him. 3But yet he took not away the high places: for the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.4And Joas said to the priests: all the money of the sanctified things, which is brought into the temple of the Lord by those that pass, which is offered for the price of a soul, and which of their own accord, and of their own free heart, they bring into the temple of the Lord:…
Cross References
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 Kings 12:2
And Joas did that which was right before the Lord all the days that Joiada, the priest, taught him.

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 15:4
But the high places he did not destroy, for the people sacrificed, and burnt incense in 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 12:2
Top of Page
Top of Page