They burned incense on all the high places just like the nations whom the Lord had driven away from before them. Their evil practices made the Lord angry.

At the same time they worshiped the Lord. They appointed some of their own people to serve as priests in the shrines on the high places.

The Israelites said things about the Lord their God that were not right. They built high places in all their cities, from the watchtower to the fortress.

He brought all the priests from the cities of Judah and ruined the high places where the priests had offered sacrifices, from Geba to Beer Sheba. He tore down the high place of the goat idols situated at the entrance of the gate of Joshua, the city official, on the left side of the city gate.