Excerpt from The Open Court, Vol. 39: A Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Science of Religion, the Religion of Science, and the Extension of the Religious Parliament Idea; February, 1925 A cursory reading of the lives of the kings of Judah brings to our attention the oft-repeated words, Howbeit the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places. Hezekiah was the first king to make the attempt to remove them, but his son Manasseh soon restored them. It was Josiah, the grandson of Manasseh, who finally put an end to them. He put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings Of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places. Until the time Of Josiah, sacrificing and the burning of incense was carried on in these high places, and later also at Jerusalem Jerusalem simply became the most prominent of them. In I Kings 111. 3, 4, we read that befor the Temple was built Solomon went to Gibson to sacrifice there: for that was the great high place. At this place God appeared to Solomon in a dream by night. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.