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Selected Verse: 2 Chronicles 33:17 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| 2Ch 33:17 |
Strong Concordance |
Nevertheless [061] the people [05971] did sacrifice [02076] still in the high places [01116], yet unto the LORD [03068] their God [0430] only. |
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King James |
Nevertheless the people did sacrifice still in the high places, yet unto the LORD their God only. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| the people did sacrifice still in the high places, yet unto the Lord their God only--Here it appears that the worship on high places, though it originated in a great measure from the practice of heathenism, and too often led to it, did not necessarily imply idolatry. |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
| Compare Kg2 21:2, note; Kg2 18:4, note. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| Still - Manasseh could not carry the reformation so far as he had carried the corruption. It is an easy thing to debauch men's manners; but not so easy to reform them again. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| The people did sacrifice - "Nevertheless the people did sacrifice on the high places, but only to the name of the Word of the Lord their God." - Targum. |
4 He removed [05493] the high places [01116], and brake [07665] the images [04676], and cut down [03772] the groves [0842], and brake in pieces [03807] the brasen [05178] serpent [05175] that Moses [04872] had made [06213]: for unto those days [03117] the children [01121] of Israel [03478] did burn incense [06999] to it: and he called [07121] it Nehushtan [05180].
2 And he did [06213] that which was evil [07451] in the sight [05869] of the LORD [03068], after the abominations [08441] of the heathen [01471], whom the LORD [03068] cast out [03423] before [06440] the children [01121] of Israel [03478].