2 Kings 16:4
He sacrificed also and burnt incense in the high places and on the hills, and under every green tree.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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1 Kings 14:23For they also built them altars, and statues, and groves upon every high hill and under every green tree:
2 Kings 14:4But this only, that he took not away the high places: for yet the people sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
Isaiah 65:4That dwell in sepulchres, and sleep in the temple of idols: that eat swine's flesh, and profane broth is in their vessels.
Jeremiah 17:2When their children shall remember their altars, and their groves, and their green trees upon high mountains,
Ezekiel 43:7Said to me: Son of man, the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, where I dwell in the midst of the children of Israel for ever: and the house of Israel shall no more profane my holy name, they and their kings by their fornications, and by the carcasses of their kings, and by the high places.
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 →