He sacrificed and burned incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.
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He sacrificed and burned incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.
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He sacrificed also and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.
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And he sacrificed and offered in the high places, and on the hills, and under every leafy tree.
Cross-references (3)
Passages linked to 2 Chronicles 28:4 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Leviticus 26:30 I will destroy your high places, and cut down your incense altars, and cast your dead bodies upon the bodies of your idols; and my soul will abhor you.
- Deuteronomy 12:2-3 You shall surely destroy all the places in which the nations that you shall dispossess served their gods: on the high mountains, and on the hills, and under every green tree. You shall break down their altars, dash their pillars in pieces, and burn their Asherah poles with fire. You shall cut down the engraved images of their gods. You shall destroy their name out of that place.
- 2 Kings 16:4 He sacrificed and burned incense in the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 2Ch 28:4 He sacrificed also and burnt incense in…
2Ch 28:4 He sacrificed also and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.
Ver. 4. He sacrificed also, &c.] See 2Ki 16:4.
John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain He sacrificed also etc - Compare 2Ki 16:4.
He sacrificed also etc - Compare 2Ki 16:4.
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible (1834–1885) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Tree. Remarkable for its size and beauty; as the…
Tree. Remarkable for its size and beauty; as the heathens supposed that some deity lay there concealed. Mariana. T.
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 4. He sacrificed also] R.V. And he sacrificed.
4. He sacrificed also] R.V. And he sacrificed.
under every green tree] The Heb. word here used for “green” (ra‘anân) means rather “flourishing,” the reference being not so much to colour as to condition and size. Large fine trees (which are rarer In the East than in the West) are important landmarks; cp. 1Ch_10:12; Gen_12:6; Gen_35:4. In different ways such trees acquired a sacred or semi-sacred character (Gen_18:1; Gen_21:33; Jdg_6:11); in some cases because they were associated with theophanies, in others perhaps because the flourishing state of the tree was regarded as the sign of the presence of some local deity.
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