Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version He offered sacrifices and burned incense at the high places, on the hilltops and under every spreading tree. New Living Translation He offered sacrifices and burned incense at the pagan shrines and on the hills and under every green tree. English Standard Version And he sacrificed and made offerings on the high places and on the hills and under every green tree. Berean Standard Bible And he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places, 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. New King James Version And he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree. New American Standard Bible And he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree. NASB 1995 He sacrificed and burned incense on the high places and on the hills and under every green tree. NASB 1977 And he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places and on the hills and under every green tree. Legacy Standard Bible He also sacrificed and burned incense on the high places and on the hills and under every green tree. Amplified Bible He also sacrificed and burned incense on the high places and on the hills and under every green tree. Christian Standard Bible He sacrificed and burned incense on the high places, 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. American Standard Version And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree. Contemporary English Version Ahaz offered sacrifices at the local shrines, as well as on every hill and in the shade of large trees. English Revised Version And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree. GOD'S WORD® Translation He offered sacrifices and burned incense as an offering at the illegal worship sites, which were on hills and under every large tree. Good News Translation At the pagan places of worship, on the hills, and under every shady tree, Ahaz offered sacrifices and burned incense. International Standard Version Furthermore, Ahaz sacrificed and burned incense on the high places, on top of hills, and under every green tree. Majority Standard Bible And he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree. NET Bible He offered sacrifices and burned incense on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree. New Heart English Bible 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 burned incense in the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree. Literal Translations Literal Standard Versionand he sacrifices and makes incense in high places, and on the heights, 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. Smith's Literal Translation And he will sacrifice and burn incense in the heights, and upon the hills, and under every green tree. Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims BibleHe sacrificed also and burnt incense in the high places and on the hills, and under every green tree. Catholic Public Domain Version Also, he was immolating victims, and burning incense, in the high places, and on the hills, and under every leafy tree. New American Bible Further, he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places, on hills, and under every green tree. New Revised Standard Version He sacrificed and made offerings on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree. Translations from Aramaic Lamsa BibleAnd he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places and on the hills and under every green tree. Peshitta Holy Bible Translated And he sacrificed and offered incense on high places and upon the hills and under every thick tree. OT Translations JPS Tanakh 1917And he sacrificed and offered in the high places, and on the hills, and under every leafy tree. Brenton Septuagint Translation And he sacrificed and burnt incense on the high places, and upon the hills, and under every shady tree. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Ahaz Reigns in Judah…3Instead, he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel and even sacrificed his son in the fire, according to the abominations of the nations that the LORD had driven out before the Israelites. 4And he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree. 5Then Rezin king of Aram and Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel came up to wage war against Jerusalem. They besieged Ahaz but could not overcome him.… Cross References Leviticus 26:30 I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars, and heap your lifeless bodies on the lifeless remains of your idols; and My soul will despise you. Deuteronomy 12:2-3 Destroy completely all the places where the nations you are dispossessing have served their gods—atop the high mountains, on the hills, and under every green tree. / Tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, burn up their Asherah poles, cut down the idols of their gods, and wipe out their names from every place. 1 Kings 14:23 They also built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree. 2 Kings 17:10-11 They set up for themselves sacred pillars and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree. / They burned incense on all the high places like the nations that the LORD had driven out before them. They did wicked things, provoking the LORD to anger. 2 Chronicles 28:4 And he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree. Isaiah 57:5-7 who burn with lust among the oaks, under every luxuriant tree, who slaughter your children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks? / Your portion is among the smooth stones of the valley; indeed, they are your lot. Even to them you have poured out a drink offering and offered a grain offering. Should I relent because of these? / On a high and lofty hill you have made your bed, and there you went up to offer sacrifices. Jeremiah 2:20 “For long ago you broke your yoke and tore off your chains, saying, ‘I will not serve!’ Indeed, on every high hill and under every green tree you lay down as a prostitute. Jeremiah 3:6 Now in the days of King Josiah, the LORD said to me, “Have you seen what faithless Israel has done? She has gone up on every high hill and under every green tree to prostitute herself there. Ezekiel 6:13 Then you will know that I am the LORD, when their slain lie among their idols around their altars, on every high hill, on all the mountaintops, and under every green tree and leafy oak—the places where they offered fragrant incense to all their idols. Hosea 4:13 They sacrifice on the mountaintops and burn offerings on the hills, under oak, poplar, and terebinth, because their shade is pleasant. And so your daughters turn to prostitution and your daughters-in-law to adultery. Acts 7:42-43 But God turned away from them and gave them over to the worship of the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: ‘Did you bring Me sacrifices and offerings forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel? / You have taken along the tabernacle of Molech and the star of your god Rephan, the idols you made to worship. Therefore I will send you into exile beyond Babylon.’ Romans 1:21-23 For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking and darkened in their foolish hearts. / Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools, / and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images of mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles. 1 Corinthians 10:20 No, but the sacrifices of pagans are offered to demons, not to God. And I do not want you to be participants with demons. Galatians 4:8 Formerly, when you did not know God, you were slaves to those who by nature are not gods. Ephesians 2:2-3 in which you used to walk when you conformed to the ways of this world and of the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit who is now at work in the sons of disobedience. / All of us also lived among them at one time, fulfilling the cravings of our flesh and indulging its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature children of wrath. Treasury of Scripture And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree. on the hills Deuteronomy 12:2 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: 1 Kings 14:23 For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree. Isaiah 57:5-7 Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks? … Jump to Previous Burned Burning Burnt Green Heights High Hills Hilltops Incense Leafy Maketh Offered Offerings Perfume Places Sacrificed Sacrifices Sacrificeth Spreading TreeJump to Next Burned Burning Burnt Green Heights High Hills Hilltops Incense Leafy Maketh Offered Offerings Perfume Places Sacrificed Sacrifices Sacrificeth Spreading Tree2 Kings 16 1. Ahaz's wicked reign5. Ahaz, assailed by Rezin and Pekah, hires Tiglath-Pileser against them 10. Ahaz, sending a pattern of an altar from Damascus to Urijah, 12. diverts the bronze altar to his own devotions, 17. He raids the temple 19. Hezekiah succeeds him And he sacrificed The act of sacrificing in ancient Israel was a central component of worship, intended to honor God and seek atonement. The Hebrew root for "sacrificed" is "זָבַח" (zabach), which often implies the offering of animals. In this context, King Ahaz's sacrifices were not to Yahweh but to pagan deities, indicating a significant departure from the covenantal faith of Israel. This act of sacrifice to other gods was a direct violation of the first commandment and a reflection of Ahaz's apostasy. and burned incense on the high places on the hills and under every green tree Under every green tree.--Comp. 1Kings 14:23; Hosea 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" (Hosea 4:13). THE SYRO-EPHRAIMITIC WAR, AND THE INTERVENTION OF TIGLATH PILESER. (Comp. Isaiah 7:1 to Isaiah 9:7, "an epitome of the discourses delivered by the prophet at this great national crisis."--Cheyne.) . . . 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).Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew And he sacrificedוַיְזַבֵּ֧חַ (way·zab·bê·aḥ) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular Strong's 2076: To slaughter for sacrifice and burned incense וַיְקַטֵּ֛ר (way·qaṭ·ṭêr) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular Strong's 6999: To smoke, turn into fragrance by fire on the high places, בַּבָּמ֖וֹת (bab·bā·mō·wṯ) Preposition-b, Article | Noun - feminine plural Strong's 1116: An elevation on וְעַל־ (wə·‘al-) Conjunctive waw | Preposition Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against the hills, הַגְּבָע֑וֹת (hag·gə·ḇā·‘ō·wṯ) Article | Noun - feminine plural Strong's 1389: A hillock and under וְתַ֖חַת (wə·ṯa·ḥaṯ) Conjunctive waw | Preposition Strong's 8478: The bottom, below, in lieu of every כָּל־ (kāl-) Noun - masculine singular construct Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every green רַעֲנָֽן׃ (ra·‘ă·nān) Adjective - masculine singular Strong's 7488: Verdant, new, prosperous tree. עֵ֥ץ (‘êṣ) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 6086: Tree, trees, wood Links 2 Kings 16:4 NIV2 Kings 16:4 NLT 2 Kings 16:4 ESV 2 Kings 16:4 NASB 2 Kings 16:4 KJV 2 Kings 16:4 BibleApps.com 2 Kings 16:4 Biblia Paralela 2 Kings 16:4 Chinese Bible 2 Kings 16:4 French Bible 2 Kings 16:4 Catholic Bible OT History: 2 Kings 16:4 He sacrificed and burnt incense (2Ki iiKi ii ki 2 kg 2kg) |
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