Divrey Hayamim Bais 20:33

33 Howbeit the high places were not removed; for HaAm as yet had not set their hearts unto Elohei Avoteihem.

Divrey Hayamim Bais 20:33 Meaning and Commentary

2 Chronicles 20:33

Howbeit, the high places were not taken away
The high places, where idols were worshipped, were taken away, ( 2 Chronicles 17:6 ) , but not those where sacrifices were offered to the true God:

for as yet the people had not prepared their hearts unto the God of
their fathers;
to seek and serve him wholly, according to his will, to offer sacrifices to him only at Jerusalem, as the law required, ( Deuteronomy 12:5-7 ) , they could not as yet be prevailed upon to relinquish the high places, built and made use of before the temple was; partly because they were nearer to some of them than that, and partly out of veneration for them, as being of a long time used.

Divrey Hayamim Bais 20:33 In-Context

31 And Yehoshaphat reigned over Yehudah. He was thirty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty and five years in Yerushalayim. And shem immo was Azuvah bat Shilchi.

32 And he walked in the derech Aviv Asa, and departed not from it, doing that which was yashar in the sight of Hashem.

33 Howbeit the high places were not removed; for HaAm as yet had not set their hearts unto Elohei Avoteihem.

34 Now the rest of the acts of Yehoshaphat, harishonim and ha’acharonim, hinei, they are written in the Annals of Yehu ben Chanani, who is recorded in the Sefer of the Melachim of Yisroel.

35 And after this did Yehoshaphat Melech Yehudah join himself in alliance with Achazyah Melech Yisroel, who did very wickedly;