2 Kings 15:4

4 However 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 fifty-two years in Yerushalayim: and his mother's name was Yekholyahu of Yerushalayim.

3 He did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD, according to all that his father Amatzyah had done.

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

5 The LORD struck the king, so that he was a leper to the day of his death, and lived in a separate house. Yotam the king's son was over the household, judging the people of the land.

6 Now the rest of the acts of `Azaryah, and all that he did, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Yehudah?