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Selected Verse: 2 Chronicles 33:17 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| 2Ch 33:17 |
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 the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan.
2 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, after the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.