2 Kings 16:4
Good News Translation
At the pagan places of worship, on the hills, and under every shady tree, Ahaz offered sacrifices and burned incense.

New Revised Standard Version
He sacrificed and made offerings on the high places, 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.

New American Bible
Further, he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places, on 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.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

on the hills

Deuteronomy 12:2 Destroy all the places in which the nations, that you shall possess, worshipped their gods upon high mountains, and hills, and under every shady tree:

1 Kings 14:23 For they also built them altars, and statues, and groves, upon every high hill, and under every green tree:

Isaiah 57:5-7 Who seek your comfort in idols under every green tree, sacrificing children in the torrents, under the high rocks? . . .

Isaiah 65:4 That dwell in sepulchres, and sleep in the temple of idols: that eat swine's flesh, and profane broth is in their vessels.

Isaiah 66:17 They that were sanctified, thought themselves clean in the gardens behind the gate within, they that did eat swine's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse: they shall be consumed together, saith the Lord.

Jeremiah 17:2 When their children shall remember their altars, and their groves, and their green trees upon the high mountains,

Ezekiel 20:28,29 And I had brought them into the land, for which I lifted up my hand to give it them: they saw every high hill, and every shady tree, and there they sacrificed their victims: and there they presented the provocation of their offerings, and there they set their sweet odours, and poured forth their libations. . . .

Context
Ahaz Reigns in Judah
3But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel: moreover, he consecrated also his son, making him pass through the fire, according to the idols of the nations which the Lord destroyed before the children of Israel. 4He sacrificed also, and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.5Then Rasin, king of Syria, and Phacee, son of Romelia, king of Israel, came up to Jerusalem to fight: and they besieged Achaz, but were not able to overcome him.…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 12:2
Destroy all the places in which the nations, that you shall possess, worshipped their gods upon high mountains, and hills, and under every shady tree:

2 Kings 14:4
But this only, that he took not away the high places; for yet the people sacrificed, and burnt incense in the high places:

Psalm 78:58
They provoked him to anger on their hills: and moved him to jealousy with their graven things.

Isaiah 57:5
Who seek your comfort in idols under every green tree, sacrificing children in the torrents, under the high rocks?

Ezekiel 6:13
And you shall know that I am the Lord, when your slain shall be amongst your idols, round about your altars, in every high hill, and on all the tops of mountains, and under every woody tree, and under every thick oak, the place where they burnt sweet smelling frankincense to all their idols.

2 Kings 16:3
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