SEV Biblia, Chapter 20:33
Con todo eso los altos no eran quitados; que el pueblo aun no había enderezado su corazón al Dios de sus padres.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 20:33
Verse 33. The high places were not taken away] The idolatry, as we have seen, was universally suppressed; but some of the places where that worship had been performed were not destroyed. Some of them still remained; and these, to such a fickle people, became the means of idolatry in reigns less propitious to truth and religion.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 33. Howbeit, the high places were not taken away , etc.] The high places, where idols were worshipped, were taken away, ( 2 Chronicles 17:6), but not those where sacrifices were offered to the true God: for as yet the people had not prepared their hearts unto the God of their fathers ; to seek and serve him wholly, according to his will, to offer sacrifices to him only at Jerusalem, as the law required, ( Deuteronomy 12:5-7), they could not as yet be prevailed upon to relinquish the high places, built and made use of before the temple was; partly because they were nearer to some of them than that, and partly out of veneration for them, as being of a long time used.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 31-37 - Jehoshaphat kept close to the worship of God, and did what he could to keep his people close to it. But after God had done such great thing for him, given him not only victory, but wealth; after this, to go an join himself with a wicked king, was very ungrateful. What could he expect but that God would be angry with him? Yet it seems, he took the warning; for when Ahaziah afterward pressed him to join him, he woul not, 1Ki 22:49. Thus the alliance was broken, and the Divine rebuke ha its effect, at least for a season. Let us be thankful for any losse which may have prevented the loss of our immortal souls. Let us prais the Lord, who sought after us, and left us not to perish in our sins __________________________________________________________________
Original Hebrew
אך 389 הבמות 1116 לא 3808 סרו 5493 ועוד 5750 העם 5971 לא 3808 הכינו 3559 לבבם 3824 לאלהי 430 אבתיהם׃ 1
