2 Kings 16:4
And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.
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1 Kings 14:23For they also built for them high places, and pillars, and Asherim, on every high hill, and under every green tree.
2 Kings 14:4However the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
Isaiah 65:4who sit among the graves, and lodge in the secret places, who eat swine's flesh, and broth of abominable things is in their vessels,
Jeremiah 17:2while their sons remember their altars and their Asherim by the green trees upon the high hills.
Ezekiel 43:7And he said to me, Son of man, [this is] the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the sons of Israel forever. And the house of Israel shall no more defile my holy name, neith
Matthew Henry on 2 Kings 16:2-5
The Reign of Ahaz. ( b. c. 726.) 1 In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah Ahaz the son of Jotham king of Judah began to reign. 2 Twenty years old was Ahaz when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem, and did not that which was right in the sight of the Lord his God, like David his father. 3 But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yea, 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… Read the whole commentary →