2 Kings 16:4

And he made offerings, burning them in the high places and on the hills and under every green tree.

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

3But he went in the ways of the kings of Israel, and even made his son go through the fire, copying the disgusting ways of the nations whom the Lord had sent out of the land before the children of Israel.

5Then Rezin, king of Aram, and Pekah, son of Remaliah, king of Israel, came up to Jerusalem to make war; and they made an attack on Ahaz, shutting him in, but were not able to overcome him.

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Cross References

1 Kings 14:23For they made high places and upright stones and wood pillars on every high hill and under every green tree;

2 Kings 14:4But still the high places were not taken away; the people went on making offerings and burning them in the high places.

Isaiah 65:4\64:5\Will you not have mercy on him who takes pleasure in doing righteousness, even on those who keep in mind your ways? Truly you were angry, and we went on doing evil, and sinning against you in the past.

Jeremiah 17:2Their altars and their wood pillars under every branching tree, on the high hills and the mountains in the field.

Ezekiel 43:7And he said to me, Son of man, this is the place where the seat of my power is and the resting-place of my feet, where I will be among the children of Israel for ever: and no longer will the people of Israel make my holy name unclean, they or their kings, by their loose ways and by the dead bodies of their kings;

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 →

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