Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 2 Kings 15:4
Save that the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burnt incense still on the high places.
4. 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 particulars of Azariah’s history unnoticed in Kings. Azariah, he says, ‘sought God in the days of Zechariah’, a prophet, who appears to have been, the king’s counsellor. He made war with success upon the Philistines, the Arabians and the Mehunim. The Ammonites became tributary to him, and he fortified Jerusalem. He built many towers, and digged many wells, had much cattle and many labourers in husbandry, ‘for he loved husbandry’. He had also a large and well-ordered army of more than three hundred thousand men, and at their head were two thousand six hundred mighty men of valour. The king provided largely for their equipment with both defensive and offensive armour, and he also contrived many cunning engines of war, so that ‘his name spread far abroad, for he was marvellously helped till he was strong’.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Save that; understand this as howbeit, 2Ki 14:4.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
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 came:
the people sacrificed and burnt incense still on the high places; see
2Ki 12:3.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
2Ki 15:4 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 not loose, yet it lessened his crown of glory.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Save that. Compare 1Ki 12:31.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
the high places: 2Ki 15:35, 2Ki 14:4, 2Ki 18:4, 1Ki 15:14, 1Ki 22:43, 2Ch 17:6, 2Ch 32:12, 2Ch 34:3
Reciprocal: 1Ki 3:3 – only he 2Ki 15:34 – according 2Ch 33:17 – people