Howbeit the high places were not taken away: as yet the people did sacrifice and burnt incense on the high places.
Ver. 4. Howbeit the high places were not taken away.] So that he did not that which was right, &c. 2Ki 14:3 - that which was, for the substance of it, approved of God - but with an exception: and was accepted accordingly. See 1 Kings 15:14 .