2 Kings 15:35

What does 2 Kings 15:35 mean?

A plain-English look at 2 Kings 15:35 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

Howbeit the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burned incense in the high places. He built the upper gate of the house of Jehovah.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

Howbeit the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burned incense in the high places. He built the upper gate of the house of Jehovah.

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

But he did not take away the high places, and the people still went on making offerings and burning them in the high places. He was the builder of the higher doorway of the house of the Lord.

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

Only, the high places have not turned aside--yet are the people sacrificing and making perfume in high places; he hath built the high gate of the house of Jehovah.

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

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.

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

Only, the high places were not removed: the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places. It was he who built the upper gate of the house of Jehovah.

Context

v.34And he did that which was right in the eyes of Jehovah; he did according to all that his father Uzziah had done.

v.35This passage

v.36Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • 2 Kings 18:4

    He removed the high places, and brake the pillars, and cut down the Asherah: and he brake in pieces the brazen serpent that Moses had made; for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it; and he called it Nehushtan.

  • 2 Chronicles 32:12

    Hath 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 upon it shall ye burn incense?

  • 2 Kings 15:4

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

  • 2 Chronicles 27:3

    He built the upper gate of the house of Jehovah, and on the wall of Ophel he built much.

  • 2 Chronicles 23:20

    And he took the captains of hundreds, and the nobles, and the governors of the people, and all the people of the land, and brought down the king from the house of Jehovah: and they came through the upper gate unto the king’s house, and set the king upon the throne of the kingdom.

  • 2 Kings 12:3

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

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