The people were sacrificing on the high places, however, for up to that time no house had been built for the name of the Lord.
They, too, built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and asherahs, upon every high hill and under every green tree.
The high places did not disappear; yet Asa’s heart was entirely with the Lord as long as he lived.
He walked in the way of Asa his father unceasingly, doing what was right in the Lord’s sight.
Nevertheless, the high places did not disappear, and the people still sacrificed on the high places and burned incense there.
ten fatted oxen, twenty pasture-fed oxen, and a hundred sheep, not counting harts, gazelles, roebucks, and fatted fowl.
though the high places did not disappear; the people continued to sacrifice and to burn incense on the high places.
The high places did not disappear from Israel, yet Asa’s heart was undivided as long as he lived.
Though the people continued to sacrifice on the high places, they now did so to the Lord, their God.
They enraged him with their high places, and with their idols provoked him to jealous anger.
I will demolish your high places, overthrow your incense stands, and cast your corpses upon the corpses of your idols. In my loathing of you,
Be careful not to sacrifice your burnt offerings in any place you like,
The young women answered, “Yes, there—straight ahead. Hurry now; just today he came to the city, because the people have a sacrifice today on the high place.