2nd Kings Chapter 16 verse 4 Holy Bible
And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.
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And he made offerings, burning them in the high places and on the hills and under every green tree.
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And he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.
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And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.
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And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.
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He sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.
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and he sacrificeth and maketh perfume in high places, and on the heights, and under every green tree.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 4. - And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places. The special sin of Ahaz here noted is that he not only allowed the high-place and grove worship, as so many other kings of Judah had done, e.g. Solomon (1 Kings 3:2), Rehoboam (1 Kings 14:23), Asa (1 Kings 15:14), Jehoshaphat (1 Kings 22:43), Joash (2 Kings 12:3), Amaziah (2 Kings 14:4), Azariah (2 Kings 15:4), and Jotham (2 Kings 15:35), but himself countenanced and took part in it, which no other king appears to have done. It was probably the stimulus that his example gave to the cult which induced Hezekiah to abolish it (see 2 Kings 18:4). And on the hills, and under every green tree (comp. 1 Kings 14:23, with the comment).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(4) In the high places.--These are evidently distinguished from "the hills," two different prepositions being used in the Hebrew as in the English. A b?m?h, or "high-place," was a local sanctuary, and it appears that a sacred pillar or altar might be called a b?m?h. Mesha king of Moab speaks of his pillar as "this b?math" (See Note on 2Kings 1:1.)Under every green tree.--Comp. 1Kings 14:23; Hosea 14:8. Thenius says not so much a green as a thick-foliaged and shadow-yielding tree. "They burn incense . . . under oaks, and poplars, and teil trees, because the shadow thereof is good" (Hosea 4:13).THE SYRO-EPHRAIMITIC WAR, AND THE INTERVENTION OF TIGLATH PILESER. (Comp. Isaiah 7:1 to Isaiah 9:7, "an epitome of the discourses delivered by the prophet at this great national crisis."--Cheyne.) . . .
