2 Kings 16:4
He sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.
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1 Kings 14:23For they also built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles 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 amongst the graves, and spend nights in secret places; who eat pig’s meat, and broth of abominable things is in their vessels;
Jeremiah 17:2Even their children remember their altars and their Asherah poles by the green trees on the high hills.
Ezekiel 43:7He 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 amongst the children of Israel forever. The house of Israel will no more defile my holy name, neither they nor their kings, by their prostitution and by the dead bodies of their kings in 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 →