But the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Places, to the true God, but contrary to his law. The king was deterred from overturning these altars, through human policy; which did not meet with the divine approbation. (Calmet) See 3 Kings xxii. 24., and Deuteronomy xii. 8.
