4
Yet, the high places were not taken away, and the people continued sacrificing and burning incense on the high places.
2 Kings 14:4 Meaning and Commentary
2 Kings 14:4
Howbeit the high places were not taken away Though he first did that which was right before God; nor did his father take them away; see ( 2 Kings 12:3 ) .
2
He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem twenty-nine years. His mother’s name was Jehoaddan; she was from Jerusalem.
3
He did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, but not as his father David had done. In everything he followed the example of his father Joash.
4
The high places, however, were not removed; the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense there.
5
After the kingdom was firmly in his grasp, he executed the officials who had murdered his father the king.
6
Yet he did not put the children of the assassins to death, in accordance with what is written in the Book of the Law of Moses where the LORD commanded: “Parents are not to be put to death for their children, nor children put to death for their parents; each will die for their own sin.”