2 Kings 16:4
And he sacrificed and burnt incense on the high-places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.
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1 Kings 14:23And they also built themselves high-places, and standing images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree.
2 Kings 14:4Nevertheless the high-places were not removed: as yet the people sacrificed and burnt incense on the high-places.
Isaiah 65:4That sit about among the graves, and lodge in the vaults, that eat the flesh of the swine, and [have] broth of abominations [in] their vessels;
Jeremiah 17:2Like their remembrance of their children, so are [to them] their altars and their groves by [every] green tree upon the high hills.
Ezekiel 43:7And he said unto 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 children of Israel forever: and the house of Israel shall not defile any more my holy name, neither they, nor their kings, by their lewdness, nor by the carcasses of their kings on their 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 →