Nevertheless, the high places were not taken away. The people still sacrificed and made offerings on the high places.
For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet a boy, he began to seek the God of David his father, and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the Asherim, and the carved and the metal images.
Has not this same Hezekiah taken away his high places and his altars and commanded Judah and Jerusalem, “Before one altar you shall worship, and on it you shall burn your sacrifices”?
His heart was courageous in the ways of the Lord. And furthermore, he took the high places and the Asherim out of Judah.
He removed the high places and broke the pillars and cut down the Asherah. And he broke in pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made, for until those days the people of Israel had made offerings to it (it was called Nehushtan).
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.
But the high places were not removed; the people still sacrificed and made offerings on the high places.
Nevertheless, the high places were not taken away; the people continued to sacrifice and make offerings on the high places.
He walked in all the way of Asa his father. He did not turn aside from it, doing what was right in the sight of the Lord. Yet the high places were not taken away, and the people still sacrificed and made offerings on the high places.
But the high places were not taken away. Nevertheless, the heart of Asa was wholly true to the Lord all his days.
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