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2 Kings 15:35 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 35. 35Howbeit the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burned incense still in the high places. He built the higher gate of the house of the LORD.
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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 removed: the people sacrificed and burned incense still in the high places….” Its responsible meaning belongs to the complete movement “Jotham builds while Aram and Israel threaten Judah.”
Read It With
- 2 Kings 15:32–38
Read 2 Kings 15:35 with 15:32–38. 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: Jotham does right with high places remaining, builds the temple's upper gate, and faces the first pressure from Rezin and Pekah before death.
Why It Needs Context
2 Kings 15:35 depends on 15:32–38; isolating “Howbeit the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burned incense still in the high places…” would detach a supporting action, quotation, name, number, object, or transition from “Jotham builds while Aram and Israel threaten Judah.”
Read 2 Kings 15:32–38 together
Why these verses belong together: 2 Kings 15:32–38 forms one scene or regnal notice: Jotham does right with high places remaining, builds the temple's upper gate, and faces the first pressure from Rezin and Pekah before death.
Verse 32. 32 In the second year of Pekah the son of Remaliah king of Israel began Jotham the son of Uzziah king of Judah to reign.
Verse 33. 33 Five and twenty years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Jerusha, the daughter of Zadok.
Verse 34. 34 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD: he did according to all that his father Uzziah had done.
Verse 35. 35 Howbeit the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burned incense still in the high places. He built the higher gate of the house of the LORD.
Verse 36. 36 Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
Verse 37. 37 In those days the LORD began to send against Judah Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah.
Verse 38. 38 And Jotham slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father: and Ahaz his son reigned in his stead.
Continue in Context
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Biblical text
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Exact location: 2 Kings 15:32–38, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
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