3But the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.


In Context

1 In the seventh year of Jehu, Jehoash began to reign; and forty years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Zibiah of Beer-sheba.

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

3 But the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.

4 And 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,

5 Let the priests take it to them, every man of his acquaintance: and let them repair the breaches of the house, wherever any breach shall be found.

2 Kings 12:3 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

12:3The high places, however, were not removed; the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense there.

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

12:3But the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

12:3But yet he took not away the high places: for the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

12:3Howbeit the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

12:3Only, the high places were not removed: the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

12:3Howbeit the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

12:3However the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

12:3only, the high places have not turned aside, still are the people sacrificing and making perfume in high places.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

12:3But the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.