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2 Kings 14:4 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 4. 4Howbeit the high places were not taken away: as yet the people did sacrifice and burnt incense on the high places.
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Role in This Section
This verse advances the thought unit through its next reported action, speech, or consequence: “Howbeit the high places were not taken away: as yet the people did sacrifice and burnt incense on….” Its responsible meaning belongs to the complete movement “Amaziah's mixed reign includes bounded justice.”
Read It With
- 2 Kings 14:1–7
Read 2 Kings 14:4 with 14:1–7. The selected wording supplies one step in the thought unit through its next reported action, speech, or consequence; the surrounding verses supply the causes, responses, and outcome summarized here: Amaziah does right but not like David, leaves high places, executes his father's killers, and spares their children in stated obedience to Torah before defeating Edom.
Why It Needs Context
2 Kings 14:4 depends on 14:1–7; isolating “Howbeit the high places were not taken away: as yet the people did sacrifice and burnt incense on…” would detach a supporting action, quotation, name, number, object, or transition from “Amaziah's mixed reign includes bounded justice.”
Read 2 Kings 14:1–7 together
Why these verses belong together: 2 Kings 14:1–7 forms one scene or regnal notice: Amaziah does right but not like David, leaves high places, executes his father's killers, and spares their children in stated obedience to Torah before defeating Edom.
Verse 1. 1 In the second year of Joash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel reigned Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah.
Verse 2. 2 He was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Jehoaddan of Jerusalem.
Verse 3. 3 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, yet not like David his father: he did according to all things as Joash his father did.
Verse 4. 4 Howbeit the high places were not taken away: as yet the people did sacrifice and burnt incense on the high places.
Verse 5. 5 And it came to pass, as soon as the kingdom was confirmed in his hand, that he slew his servants which had slain the king his father.
Verse 6. 6 But the children of the murderers he slew not: according unto that which is written in the book of the law of Moses, wherein the LORD commanded, saying, The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, nor the children be put to death for the fathers; but every man shall be put to death for his own sin.
Verse 7. 7 He slew of Edom in the valley of salt ten thousand, and took Selah by war, and called the name of it Joktheel unto this day.
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Biblical text
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Exact location: 2 Kings 14:1–7, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
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