2 Kings 12:3 - Exposition

But the high places were not taken away. So it had been with the best of the previous kings of Judah, as Asa ( 1 Kings 15:14 ) and Jehoshaphat ( 1 Kings 22:43 ); and so it was with the other "good" kings ( 2 Kings 14:4 ; 2 Kings 15:4 , 2 Kings 15:35 ) until the reign of Hezekiah, by whom the high places were removed (see below, 2 Kings 18:4 ). We must remember that it was Jehovah who was worshipped in the "high places," not Baal, or Moloch, or Ashtoreth (see the comment on l Kings 2 Kings 15:14 ). The people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places. The people, not the king, in the earlier portion of his reign; but in the later portion, probably the king also (see 2 Chronicles 24:17 , 2 Chronicles 24:18 ).