2 Kings 15:35
Good News Translation
But the pagan places of worship were not destroyed, and the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense there. It was Jotham who built the North Gate of the Temple.

New Revised Standard Version
Nevertheless the high places were not removed; the people still sacrificed and made offerings on the high places. He built the upper gate of the house of the LORD.

Contemporary English Version
It was Jotham who rebuilt the Upper Gate that led into the court around the LORD's temple. But the local shrines were not destroyed, and they were still used as places for offering sacrifices.

New American Bible
though the high places did not disappear, and the people continued to sacrifice and to burn incense on the high places. It was he who built the Upper Gate of the LORD’s house.

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.

Howbeit

2 Kings 15:4 But the high places he did not destroy, for the people sacrificed, and burnt incense in the high places.

2 Kings 18:4 He destroyed the high places, and broke the statues in pieces, and cut down the groves, and broke the brazen serpent, which Moses had made: for till that time the children of Israel burnt incense to it: and he called its name Nohestan.

2 Chronicles 32:12 Is it not this same Ezechias, that hath destroyed his high places, and his altars, and commanded Juda and Jerusalem, saying: You shall worship before one altar, and upon it you shall burn incense?

the higher gate

2 Chronicles 27:3 He built the high gate of the house of the Lord, and on the wall of Ophel he built much.

Context
Jotham Reigns in Judah
34And he did that which was right before the Lord: according to all that his father Ozias had done, so did he. 35But 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.36But the rest of the acts of Joatham, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Juda?…
Cross References
2 Kings 12:3
But yet he took not away the high places: for the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.

2 Kings 15:36
But the rest of the acts of Joatham, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Juda?

2 Chronicles 23:20
And he took the captains of hundreds, and the most valiant men, and the chiefs of the people, and all the people of the land, and they brought down the king from the house of the Lord, and brought him through the upper gate into the king's house, and set him on the royal throne.

2 Chronicles 27:3
He built the high gate of the house of the Lord, and on the wall of Ophel he built much.

2 Kings 15:34
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