2 Kings 16:4
and he sacrificeth and maketh perfume in high places, and on the heights, and under every green tree.
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1 Kings 14:23And they build — also they — for themselves high places, and standing-pillars, and shrines, on every high height, and under every green tree;
2 Kings 14:4only, the high places have not turned aside — yet are the people sacrificing and making perfume in high places.
Isaiah 65:4Who are dwelling among sepulchres, And lodge in reserved places, Who are eating flesh of the sow, And a piece of abominable things — their vessels.
Jeremiah 17:2As their sons remember their altars and their shrines, By the green tree, by the high hills.
Ezekiel 43:7and He saith unto 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 sons of Israel to the age, Defile no more do the house of Israel My holy name, They, and their kings, by their whoredom, And by the carcases of their kings — 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 →