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2 Kings 16:4

Also he offred and burnt incense in the hie places and on the hilles, and vnder euery greene tree.

Geneva Bible 1599

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 walked in the way of ye kings of Israel, yea, and made his sonne to go through the fire, after the abominations of the heathen, whom the Lord had cast out before the children of Israel.

5Then Rezin king of Aram and Pekah sonne of Remaliah King of Israel came vp to Ierusalem to fight: and they besieged Ahaz, but could not ouercome him.

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Cross References

1 Kings 14:23For they also made them hie places, and images, and groues on euery hie hill, and vnder euery greene tree.

2 Kings 14:4Notwithstanding the hie places were not taken away: for as yet the people did sacrifice and burnt incense in the hie places.

Isaiah 65:4Which remaine among the graues, and lodge in the desarts, which eate swines flesh, and the broth of things polluted are in their vessels.

Jeremiah 17:2They remember their altars as their children, with their groues by the greene trees vpon the hilles.

Ezekiel 43:7Which saide vnto me, Sonne of man, this place is my throne, and the place of the soles of my feete, whereas I will dwell among the children of Israel for euer, and the house of Israel shall no more defile mine holy Name, neither they, nor their Kings by their fornication, nor by the carkeises 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 →

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