2 Chronicles 20:33
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New International Version (©2011)
The high places, however, were not removed, and the people still had not set their hearts on the God of their ancestors.

New Living Translation (©2007)
During his reign, however, he failed to remove all the pagan shrines, and the people never fully committed themselves to follow the God of their ancestors.

English Standard Version (©2001)
The high places, however, were not taken away; the people had not yet set their hearts upon the God of their fathers.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
The high places, however, were not removed; the people had not yet directed their hearts to the God of their fathers.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Howbeit the high places were not taken away: for as yet the people had not prepared their hearts unto the God of their fathers.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
However, the high places were not taken away; the people had not yet set their hearts on the God of their ancestors.

International Standard Version (©2012)
However, the high places were not removed, since the people had not yet directed their hearts to the God of their ancestors.

NET Bible (©2006)
However, the high places were not eliminated; the people were still not devoted to the God of their ancestors.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
But the illegal worship sites on the hills were not torn down. The people still didn't have their hearts set on the God of their ancestors.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
However the high places were not taken away: for as yet the people had not prepared their hearts unto the God of their fathers.

American King James Version
However, the high places were not taken away: for as yet the people had not prepared their hearts to the God of their fathers.

American Standard Version
Howbeit the high places were not taken away; neither as yet had the people set their hearts unto the God of their fathers.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But yet he took not away the high places, and the people had not yet turned their heart to the Lord the God of their fathers.

Darby Bible Translation
Only, the high places were not removed; and as yet the people had not directed their hearts to the God of their fathers.

English Revised Version
Howbeit the high places were not taken away; neither as yet had the people set their hearts unto the God of their fathers.

Webster's Bible Translation
But the high places were not taken away: for as yet the people had not prepared their hearts to the God of their fathers.

World English Bible
However the high places were not taken away; neither as yet had the people set their hearts to the God of their fathers.

Young's Literal Translation
Only, the high places have not turned aside, and still the people have not prepared their heart for the God of their fathers.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

20:31-37 Jehoshaphat kept close to the worship of God, and did what he could to keep his people close to it. But after God had done such great things for him, given him not only victory, but wealth; after this, to go and join himself with a wicked king, was very ungrateful. What could he expect but that God would be angry with him? Yet it seems, he took the warning; for when Ahaziah afterward pressed him to join him, he would not, 1Ki 22:49. Thus the alliance was broken, and the Divine rebuke had its effect, at least for a season. Let us be thankful for any losses which may have prevented the loss of our immortal souls. Let us praise the Lord, who sought after us, and left us not to perish in our sins.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 33. - Howbeit the high places... the people had not prepared. The statements so precisely made in this verse evidently serve the purpose of distinguishing between the wishes and orders of the king and the unequal conduct of his people.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Howbeit, the high places were not taken away,.... The high places, where idols were worshipped, were taken away, 2 Chronicles 17:6, but not those where sacrifices were offered to the true God:

for as yet the people had not prepared their hearts unto the God of their fathers; to seek and serve him wholly, according to his will, to offer sacrifices to him only at Jerusalem, as the law required, Deuteronomy 12:5, they could not as yet be prevailed upon to relinquish the high places, built and made use of before the temple was; partly because they were nearer to some of them than that, and partly out of veneration for them, as being of a long time used.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

33. the high places were not taken away—Those on which idolatry was practised were entirely destroyed (2Ch 17:6); but those where the people, notwithstanding the erection of the temple, continued to worship the true God, prudence required to be slowly and gradually abolished, in deference to popular prejudice.

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Summary of Jehoshaphat's Reign
31And Jehoshaphat reigned over Judah: he was thirty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty and five years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi. 32And he walked in the way of Asa his father, and departed not from it, doing that which was right in the sight of the LORD. 33However, the high places were not taken away: for as yet the people had not prepared their hearts to the God of their fathers.

2 Chronicles 17:6 His heart was devoted to the ways of the LORD; furthermore, he removed the high places and the Asherah poles from Judah.
2 Chronicles 19:3 There is, however, some good in you, for you have rid the land of the Asherah poles and have set your heart on seeking God."
2 Chronicles 20:32 He followed the ways of his father Asa and did not stray from them; he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD.