2 Kings 16:4 He offered sacrifices and burned incense at the high places, on the hilltops and under every spreading tree.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
He offered sacrifices and burned incense at the high places, on the hilltops and under every spreading tree.

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

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

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

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

International Standard Version
Furthermore, Ahaz sacrificed and burned incense on the high places, on top of 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.

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

Cross References

Deuteronomy 12:2
You shall utterly destroy all the places, wherein the nations which you shall possess served their gods, on the high mountains, and on the hills, and under every green tree:

2 Kings 14:4
However, the high places were not taken away: as yet the people did sacrifice and burnt incense on the high places.

Psalm 78:58
For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.

Isaiah 57:5
Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clefts of the rocks?

Ezekiel 6:13
Then shall you know that I am the LORD, when their slain men shall be among their idols round about their altars, on every high hill, in all the tops of the mountains, and under every green tree, and under every thick oak, the place where they did offer sweet smell to all their idols.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's 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.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

3. walked in the way of the kings of Israel—This is descriptive of the early part of his reign, when, like the kings of Israel, he patronized the symbolic worship of God by images but he gradually went farther into gross idolatry (2Ch 28:2).

made his son to pass through the fire—(2Ki 23:10). The hands of the idol Moloch being red hot, the children were passed through between them, which was considered a form of lustration. There is reason to believe that, in certain circumstances, the children were burnt to death (Ps 106:37). This was strongly prohibited in the law (Le 18:21; 20:2-5; De 18:10), although there is no evidence that it was practised in Israel till the time of Ahaz.