Contradiction with Deuteronomy 12:2-4
This passage commands the Israelites to destroy all the high places, yet 2 Kings 14:4 notes that the high places were not removed, indicating disobedience to this directive.
Deuteronomy 12:2-4: Ye shall utterly destroy all the places, wherein the nations which ye shall possess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree: [possess: or, inherit]
Contradiction with 1 Kings 15:14
Although it says that Asa's heart was perfect with the Lord, the high places were not removed, which contradicts the ideal that a perfect heart should align with removing the high places as commanded.
1 Kings 15:14: But the high places were not removed: nevertheless Asa's heart was perfect with the LORD all his days.
Contradiction with 2 Kings 18:4
In this verse, Hezekiah removed the high places, which contrasts with 2 Kings 14:4 where the high places were not taken away, showing a difference in obedience between kings.
2 Kings 18:4: He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan. [images: Heb. statues] [Nehushtan: that is, A piece of brass]
Contradiction with 1 Kings 22:43
Jehoshaphat is said to have done right in the eyes of the Lord, but he did not take away the high places, conflicting with 2 Kings 14:4, where Joash begins to do what was right yet fails to remove the high places, indicating a repeated pattern of incomplete reform.
1 Kings 22:43: And he walked in all the ways of Asa his father; he turned not aside from it, doing [that which was] right in the eyes of the LORD: