But the high places he took not away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places. He built the highest gate of the house of the Lord.
And he took the captains of hundreds, and the most valiant men, and the chiefs of the people, and all the people of the land: and they brought down the king from the house of the Lord, and brought him through the upper gate into the king's house, and set him on the royal throne.
Is it not this same Ezechias, that hath destroyed his high places, and his altars, and commanded Juda and Jerusalem, saying: You shall worship before one altar, and upon it you shall burn incense?
He destroyed the high places, and broke the statues in pieces, and cut down the groves, and broke the brazen serpent, which Moses had made. For till that time the children of Israel burnt incense to it: and he called its name Nohestan.