He sacrificed and burned incense in the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.
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He sacrificed and burned incense in the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.
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And he sacrificed 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.
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Passages linked to 2 Kings 16:4 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Deuteronomy 12:2 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.
- 1 Kings 14:23 For they also built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.
- 2 Kings 14:4 However the high places were not taken away. The people still sacrificed and burned incense in the high places.
- Isaiah 57:5-7 you who inflame yourselves among the oaks, under every green tree; who kill the children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks? Among the smooth stones of the valley is your portion. They, they are your lot. You have even poured a drink offering to them. You have offered an offering. Shall I be appeased for these things? On a high and lofty mountain you have set your bed. You also went up there to offer sacrifice.
- Isaiah 65:4 who sit among the graves, and spend nights in secret places; who eat pig’s meat, and broth of abominable things is in their vessels;
- Isaiah 66:17 “Those who sanctify themselves and purify themselves to go to the gardens, behind one in the middle, eating pig’s meat, abominable things, and the mouse, they shall come to an end together,” says Yahweh.
- Jeremiah 17:2 Even their children remember their altars and their Asherah poles by the green trees on the high hills.
- Ezekiel 20:28-29 For when I had brought them into the land which I swore to give to them, then they saw every high hill, and every thick tree, and they offered there their sacrifices, and there they presented the provocation of their offering. There they also made their pleasant aroma, and there they poured out their drink offerings. Then I said to them, ‘What does the high place where you go mean?’ So its name is called Bamah to this day.” ’
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 2Ki 16:4 And he sacrificed and burnt incense in…
2Ki 16:4 And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.
Ver. 4. And he sacrificed, &c.] He "did evil with both hands earnestly," {Mic 7:3} as if afraid to be outdone by any other; he took long strides toward hell, which was but a little afore him, and did even gape for him.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain After the manner of the heathens: See Poole "Deu…
After the manner of the heathens: See Poole "Deu 12:2"; See Poole "Jer 2:20"; See Poole "Hos 4:13".
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Then Rezin king of Syria, and Pekah son of…
Then Rezin king of Syria, and Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel, came up to Jerusalem to war,.... To fight with Ahaz, moved to it by the Lord, to chastise Ahaz for his idolatry, Kg2 15:37.
but could not overcome him; so as to take Jerusalem, and set up another king there, as their scheme was, Isa 7:5 though they had both at other times got great advantages over him, and slew many of his people, and carried them captive, see Ch2 28:5.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain 2Ki 16:4. He sacrificed, &c., in the high places…
2Ki 16:4. He sacrificed, &c., in the high places — If his father had but had zeal enough to take them away, it might have prevented the corrupting of his sons. They that connive at sin, know not what dangerous snares they lay for those that come after them.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain He sacrificed ... - Other kings of Judah bad…
He sacrificed ... - Other kings of Judah bad allowed their people to do so. Ahaz was the first, so far as we know, to countenance the practice by his own example.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 4. High places… hills… every green tree — Compare…
4. High places… hills… every green tree — Compare Hos_4:13. To all this Chronicles adds that he “made molten images for Baalim.”
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 4. And he sacrificed, &c.] Hitherto we have heard…
4. And he sacrificed, &c.] Hitherto we have heard only that the people continued the worship in the high places. Now the king takes part in the same, and so makes it doubly popular.
under every green tree] Expressly mentioned (Deu_12:2) as among the wrong doings of the heathen: ‘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’.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (4) In the high places.—These are evidently distinguished from…
(4) In the high places.—These are evidently distinguished from “the hills,” two different prepositions being used in the Hebrew as in the English. A bâmâh, or “high-place,” was a local sanctuary, and it appears that a sacred pillar or altar might be called a bâmâh. Mesha king of Moab speaks of his pillar as “this bâmath” (See Note on 2Ki_1:1.)
Under every green tree.—Comp. 1Ki_14:23; Hos_14:8. Thenius says not so much a green as a thick-foliaged and shadow-yielding tree. “They burn incense . . . under oaks, and poplars, and teil trees, because the shadow thereof is good” (Hos_4:13).
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THE SYRO-EPHRAIMITIC WAR, AND THE INTERVENTION OF TIGLATH PILESER. (Comp. Isa_7:1 to Isa_9:7, “an epitome of the discourses delivered by the prophet at this great national crisis.”—Cheyne.)
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high…
And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places. The special sin of Ahaz here noted is that he not only allowed the high-place and grove worship, as so many other kings of Judah had done, e.g. Solomon, (1Ki_3:2) Rehoboam, (1Ki_14:23) Asa, (1Ki_15:14) Jehoshaphat, (1Ki_22:43) Joash, (2Ki_12:3) Amaziah, (2Ki_14:4) Azariah, (2Ki_15:4) and Jotham, (2Ki_15:35) but himself countenanced and took part in it, which no other king appears to have done. It was probably the stimulus that his example gave to the cult which induced Hezekiah to abolish it. (see 2Ki_18:4) And on the hills, and under every green tree. (comp. 1Ki_14:23, with the comment)
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