2 Kings 15:4

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

2 Kings 15:4 Meaning and Commentary

2 Kings 15:4

Save that the high places were not removed
That is, he did right, excepting in that instance, and which was the case of his father and other kings before him, and others afterwards, till Hezekiah came:

the people sacrificed and burnt incense still on the high places;
see ( 2 Kings 12:3 ) .

2 Kings 15:4 In-Context

2 Sixteen years old was he when he began to reign; and he reigned two and fifty years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Jecoliah of Jerusalem.

3 And he did that which was right in the eyes of Jehovah, according to all that his father Amaziah had done.

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

5 And Jehovah smote the king, so that he was a leper unto the day of his death, and dwelt in a separate house. And Jotham the king's son was over the household, judging the people of the land.

6 Now the rest of the acts of Azariah, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?