2 Kings 14:4
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New International Version (©2011)
The high places, however, were not removed; the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense there.

New Living Translation (©2007)
Amaziah did not destroy the pagan shrines, and the people still offered sacrifices and burned incense there.

English Standard Version (©2001)
But the high places were not removed; the people still sacrificed and made offerings on the high places.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Only the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Howbeit the high places were not taken away: as yet the people did sacrifice and burnt incense on the high places.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Yet the high places were not taken away, and the people continued sacrificing and burning incense on the high places.

International Standard Version (©2012)
except that the high places were not abolished. The people continued to offer sacrifices and to burn incense on the high places.

NET Bible (©2006)
But the high places were not eliminated; the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense on the high places.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
But the illegal places of worship were still not torn down. The people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense at these worship sites.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
However the high places were not taken away: as yet the people did sacrifice and burnt incense on the high places.

American King James Version
However, the high places were not taken away: as yet the people did sacrifice and burnt incense on the high places.

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

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

Darby Bible Translation
Only, the high places were not removed: the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.

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

Webster's Bible Translation
But, the high places were not taken away: as yet the people sacrificed, and burnt incense on the high places.

World English Bible
However the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.

Young's Literal Translation
only, the high places have not turned aside -- yet are the people sacrificing and making perfume in high places.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

14:1-7 Amaziah began well, but did not go on so. It is not enough to do that which our pious predecessors did, merely to keep up the common usage, but we must do it as they did, from the same principle of faith and devotion, and with the same sincerity and resolution.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 4. - Howbeit the high places were not taken away. No king ventured to touch the "high places" until the time of Hezekiah, by whom they were put down (2 Kings 18:4). Even Asa did not remove them (1 Kings 15:14). They were remnants of an old ancestral worship which went back to the time of the judges, and which had been connived at by judges and kings and prophets. Local feeling was everywhere in their favor, since they provided for local needs, and enabled men to dispense with the long] and tedious journey to the distant Jerusalem. As yet the people did sacrifice and burnt incense on the high places; literally, were sacrificing and burning incense; i.e. continued the practice, which had come down to them from their ancestors. (On the morality and legality of the practice, see the comment on 1 Kings 3:2.)

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Howbeit the high places were not taken away,.... Though he first did that which was right before God; nor did his father take them away; see 2 Kings 12:3.

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Amaziah's Good Reign in Judah
…3And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, yet not like David his father: he did according to all things as Joash his father did. 4However, the high places were not taken away: as yet the people did sacrifice and burnt incense on the high places. 5And it came to pass, as soon as the kingdom was confirmed in his hand, that he slew his servants which had slain the king his father. …

2 Kings 12:3 The high places, however, were not removed; the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense there.
2 Kings 14:3 He did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, but not as his father David had done. In everything he followed the example of his father Joash.
2 Kings 16:4 He offered sacrifices and burned incense at the high places, on the hilltops and under every spreading tree.