While he was still talking with them, behold, the messenger came down to him and he said, “Behold, this evil is from the Lord; why should I wait for the Lord any longer?”

Only the high places did not end; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.

Only the high places were not eliminated; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.

Only the high places were not eliminated; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.

Only the high places were not eliminated; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places. He built the upper gate of the house of the Lord.

But every nation was still making gods of its own, and they put them in the houses of the high places which the people of Samaria had made, every nation in their cities in which they lived.