2 Kings 16:4
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New International Version (©2011)
He offered sacrifices and burned incense at the high places, on the hilltops and under every spreading tree.

New Living Translation (©2007)
He offered sacrifices and burned incense at the pagan shrines and on the hills and under every green tree.

English Standard Version (©2001)
And he sacrificed and made offerings on the high places and on the hills and under every green tree.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
He sacrificed and burned incense on the high places and on the hills and under every green tree.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
He sacrificed and burned incense on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.

International Standard Version (©2012)
Furthermore, Ahaz sacrificed and burned incense on the high places, on top of hills, and under every green tree.

NET Bible (©2006)
He offered sacrifices and burned incense on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
He offered sacrifices and burned incense as an offering at the illegal worship sites, which were on hills and under every large tree.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.

American King James Version
And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.

American Standard Version
And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He sacrificed also and burnt incense in the high places and on the hills, and under every green tree.

Darby Bible Translation
And he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.

English Revised Version
And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.

Webster's Bible Translation
And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.

World English Bible
He sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.

Young's Literal Translation
and he sacrificeth and maketh perfume in high places, and on the heights, and under every green tree.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

16:1-9 Few and evil were the days of Ahaz. Those whose hearts condemn them, will go any where in a day of distress, rather than to God. The sin was its own punishment. It is common for those who bring themselves into straits by one sin, to try to help themselves out by another.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 4. - 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 (1 Kings 3:2), Rehoboam (1 Kings 14:23), Asa (1 Kings 15:14), Jehoshaphat (1 Kings 22:43), Joash (2 Kings 12:3), Amaziah (2 Kings 14:4), Azariah (2 Kings 15:4), and Jotham (2 Kings 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 2 Kings 18:4). And on the hills, and under every green tree (comp. 1 Kings 14:23, with the comment).

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills,.... Which none of the kings of Judah before him ever did; for though they connived at this practice in the people, they never encouraged it by their own example; and very probably he offered sacrifices there to idols, see 2 Chronicles 28:25 whereas the people sacrificed to the true God, though at a wrong place:

and under every green tree; and which is never said of the people, and seems to confirm it, that Ahaz sacrificed to other gods, since the Heathens used to place idols under green trees, and worship them, whom the Jews imitated, Jeremiah 2:2.

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Ahaz Reigns Wickedly in Judah
…3But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yes, and made his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out from before the children of Israel. 4And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree. 5Then Rezin king of Syria and Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel came up to Jerusalem to war: and they besieged Ahaz, but could not overcome him. …

Deuteronomy 12:2 Destroy completely all the places on the high mountains, on the hills and under every spreading tree, where the nations you are dispossessing worship their gods.
2 Kings 14:4 The high places, however, were not removed; the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense there.
Psalm 78:58 They angered him with their high places; they aroused his jealousy with their idols.
Isaiah 57:5 You burn with lust among the oaks and under every spreading tree; you sacrifice your children in the ravines and under the overhanging crags.
Ezekiel 6:13 And they will know that I am the LORD, when their people lie slain among their idols around their altars, on every high hill and on all the mountaintops, under every spreading tree and every leafy oak--places where they offered fragrant incense to all their idols.