Bible verse
Nevertheless, the high places were not removed; the people continued sacrificing and burning incense there.
2 Kings 12:3 · BSB
The verses around it, from 2 Kings 12.
1 In the seventh year of Jehu, Joash became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem forty years. His mother’s name was Zibiah; she was from Beersheba.
2 And Joash did what was right in the eyes of the LORD all the days he was instructed by Jehoiada the priest.
3 Nevertheless, the high places were not removed; the people continued sacrificing and burning incense there.
4 Then Joash said to the priests, “Collect all the money brought as sacred gifts into the house of the LORD—the census money, the money from vows, and the money brought voluntarily into the house of the LORD.
5 Let every priest receive it from his constituency, and let it be used to repair any damage found in the temple.”
6 By the twenty-third year of the reign of Joash, however, the priests had not yet repaired the damage to the temple.
7 So King Joash called Jehoiada and the other priests and said, “Why have you not repaired the damage to the temple? Now, therefore, take no more money from your constituency, but hand it over for the repair of the temple.”
KJV
But the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
ASV
Howbeit the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
ERV
Howbeit the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
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