2 Chronicles 33:17

17 Nevertheless, the people still sacrificed in the high places, yet unto the LORD their God only.

2 Chronicles 33:17 Meaning and Commentary

2 Chronicles 33:17

Nevertheless, the people did sacrifice still in the high
places
Not in those that were built for idols, at least did not sacrifice to them; for it follows:

yet unto the Lord their God only;
the Targum is,

``to the name of the Word of the Lord their God.''

2 Chronicles 33:17 In-Context

15 Likewise, he took away the strange gods and the idol out of the house of the LORD and all the altars that he had built in the mount of the house of the LORD and in Jerusalem and cast them out of the city.

16 And he repaired the altar of the LORD and sacrificed upon it sacrifices of peace and of praise and commanded Judah to serve the LORD God of Israel.

17 Nevertheless, the people still sacrificed in the high places, yet unto the LORD their God only.

18 Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his prayer unto his God and the words of the seers that spoke to him in the name of the LORD God of Israel, behold, they are written in the acts of the kings of Israel.

19 His prayer also and how he was heard, and all his sins, and his trespass, and the places upon which he built high places, and set up groves and graven images, before he humbled himself; behold, these things are written among the words of the seers.