KJV King James Version
And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.
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2 Kings 16:4
And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
And he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.
WEB World English Bible
He sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.
ASV American Standard Version
And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
and he sacrificeth and maketh perfume in high places, and on the heights, and under every green tree.
Surrounding context — 2 Kings 16
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 Israel.
4 And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.
5 Then Rezin king of Syria and Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel came up to Jerusalem to war: and they besieged Ahaz, but could not overcome [him].
6 At that time Rezin king of Syria recovered Elath to Syria, and drave the Jews from Elath: and the Syrians came to Elath, and dwelt there unto this day.
7 So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglathpileser king of Assyria, saying, I [am] thy servant and thy son: come up, and save me out of the hand of the king of Syria, and out of the hand of the king of Israel, which rise up against me.
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Deuteronomy 12:2Ye shall utterly destroy all the places, wherein the nations which ye shall possess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree:1 Kings 14:23For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree.Ezekiel 20:28-29[For] when I had brought them into the land, [for] the which I lifted up mine hand to give it to them, then they saw every high hill, and all the thick trees, and they offered there their sacrifices, and there they presented the provocation of their offering: there also they made their sweet savour, and poured out there their drink offerings.Isaiah 66:17They that sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the gardens behind one [tree] in the midst, eating swine’s flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, shall be consumed together, saith the LORD.Isaiah 65:4Which remain among the graves, and lodge in the monuments, which eat swine’s flesh, and broth of abominable [things is in] their vessels;2 Kings 14:4Howbeit the high places were not taken away: as yet the people did sacrifice and burnt incense on the high places.Jeremiah 17:2Whilst their children remember their altars and their groves by the green trees upon the high hills.Isaiah 57:5-7Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks?
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