What does 2 Kings 15:4 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Save that the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burnt incense still on the high places."
CHAPTER 15 _ 1. Reign and death of Azariah (Uzziah) (2 Kings 15:1; 2 Chronicles 26)._ 2. Reign and death of Zachariah (2 Kings 15:8) 3. Reign and death of Shallum (2 Kings 15:13) 4. Menahem, King...
REIGN OF AZARIAH (UZZIAH). The long reign of this king passes almost unnoticed in this book. He is called Uzziah elsewhere in Chronicles and Isaiah, except 1 Chronicles 3:12. 2 KINGS 15:5. Yahweh smo...
SAVE THAT. Compare 1 Kings 12:31....
_save that_[R.V. HOWBEIT] _the high places_ The rendering is thus made to agree with verse 25 of this chapter, where the Hebrew is the same. The Chronicler at this point supplies us with many particul...
B. THE REIGN OF AZARIAH (UZZIAH) IN JUDAH 15:1-7 TRANSLATION (1) In the twenty-seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel, Azariah the son of Amaziah king of Judah began to reign. (2) He was sixteen ye...
_SIXTEEN YEARS OLD WAS HE WHEN HE BEGAN TO REIGN, AND HE REIGNED TWO AND FIFTY YEARS IN JERUSALEM. AND HIS MOTHER'S NAME WAS JECHOLIAH OF JERUSALEM._ No JFB commentary on these verses....
SUNDRY BRIEF ANNALS This chapter relates the reigns of Azariah and Jotham of Judah, and of Zechariah, Shallum, Menahem, Pekahiah, and Pekah of Israel....
THE LAST KINGS OF *ISRAEL AND *JUDAH BOOK OF 2 KINGS _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 15 UZZIAH’S RULE AS KING OF *JUDAH V1 Uzziah, Amaziah’s son, began his rule as king of *Judah. He did so in the 27th y...
רַ֥ק הַ בָּמֹ֖ות לֹא ־סָ֑רוּ עֹ֥וד הָ עָ֛ם מְזַבְּחִ֥ים וּֽ מְקַטְּרִ֖ים בַּ † בָּמֹֽות׃...
AZARIAH-UZZIAH B.C. 783 (?)- 737 JOTHAM B.C. 737-735 2 Kings 15:1; 2 Kings 15:32 "This is vanity, and it is a sore sickness." - Ecclesiastes 6:2. BEFORE we watch the last "glimmerings and decay...
“A LEPER UNTIL THE DAY OF HIS DEATH” 2 Kings 15:1 The reign of Azariah, or Uzziah, in Judah was very splendid. Fifty-two years of almost unbroken prosperity! The story is told in the glowing periods...
The throne of Judah was occupied by Azariah, the Uzziah of Isaiah. In the main, his reign was characterized by obedience to the divine will, yet the people continued in sin, and the king was smitten w...
_But. In this he was not different from his father, chap. xiv. 4._...
The review of the parallel history in the 2nd book of the Chronicles, will form the best comment on the history of Azariah. Though it be said he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, it i...
But not merely this. "Elisha died and they buried him" (2 Kings 13:20). Was not Elisha gone then? Not so. There was to be even a more glorious witness in his death than in his life. In his life, no do...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 13 THROUGH 17. Walking in the steps of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, the house of Jehu was no protection to Israel against Hazael. But the compassion of Jehova...
SAVE THAT THE HIGH PLACES WERE NOT REMOVED,.... That is, he did right, excepting in that instance, and which was the case of his father and other kings before him, and others afterwards, till Hezekiah...
Save that the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burnt incense still on the high places. Ver. 4. _The high places were not removed._] No, not in his best times. This, if it did n...
_According to all that his father had done_ Like him beginning well, but not persevering. _Save that_ It should rather be read, _howbeit_, or _nevertheless_, (as in 2 Kings 14:4,) _the high places wer...
1 Azariah his good reigne. 5 He dying a Leper, Iotham succeedeth. 8 Zachariah, the last of Iehu his generation, reigning ill, is slaine by Shallum. 13 Shallum reigning a moneth, is slaine by Menahe...
AZARIAH IN JUDAH...
AZARIAH'S REIGN IN JUDAH (vv.1-17) The reign of Azariah began after Jereboam had reigned 27 years in Samaria. We have seen Azariah (Uzziah) was only 16 years old when he began to reign, and reigned...
1-7 Uzziah did for the most part that which was right. It was happy for the kingdom that a good reign was a long one....
SAVE THAT; understand this as _howbeit_, 2 KINGS 14:4....
2 Kings 15:4 places H1116 removed H5493 (H8804) people H5971 sacrificed H2076 (H8764) incense H6999 (H8764) places H1116 the high places - 2 Kings 15:35, 2 Kings 14:4, 2 Kings 18:4; 1 Kings 15:14,...
THE REIGN OF AZARIAH (UZZIAH) KING OF JUDAH C. 767-740/39 BC. CO-REGENT FROM 791/90 BC. The reign of Azariah (Uzziah) can be paralleled with that of Jeroboam, with similar expansion and the same stric...
CONTENTS: Reign of Azariah and Jotham over Judah and Zechariah, Shallum, Menahem, Pekahiah, Pekah over Israel. CHARACTERS: God, Azariah, Jotham, Zechariah, Shallum, Menahem, Pul, Pekahiah, Pekah, Rez...
2 Kings 15:1. _Azariah;_ that is, Uzziah, as below, and Isaiah 6:1. He was a good man under affliction, brought several of the ten tribes under the wings of his defence, extended his empire to the Red...
2 KINGS—NOTE ON 2 KINGS 15:3 HE DID WHAT WAS RIGHT [but] THE HIGH PLACES WERE NOT TAKEN AWAY. See 2 Kings 14:3 for a similar description of Azariah’s father, Amaziah. Azariah is also called Uzziah in...
AZARIAH AND JOTHAM IN JUDAH, AND THE LAST SIX KINGS IN ISRAEL CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.— 2 Kings 15:1.—AZARIAH, SON OF AMAZIAH, KING OF JUDAH—This king is the _Uzziah_ of 2 Chronicles 26. See...
EXPOSITION 2 KINGS 15:1 REIGNS OF AZARIAH AND JOTHAM OVER JUDAH; AND OF ZACHARIAH, SHALLUM, MENAHEM, PEKAHIAH, AND PEKAH OVER ISRAEL. 2 KINGS 15:1 THE REIGN OF AZARIAH OVER JUDAS. The writer now mo...
He was sixteen years old when he began to reign, he reigned for fifty-two years (2 Kings 15:2). One of the longest reigns. He did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that...
1 Kings 15:14; 1 Kings 22:43; 2 Chronicles 17:6; 2 Chronicles 32:12; 2 Chronicles 34:3; 2 Kings 14:4; 2 Kings 15:35; 2 Kings 18:4...