2 Kings 16:4 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁴ He sacrificed and made offerings on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ He sacrificed and burned incense in the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.

Common English Bible

⁴ He also sacrificed and burned incense at the shrines on every hill and beneath every shady tree.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ Also, he was immolating victims, and burning incense, in the high places, and on the hills, and under every leafy tree.

2 Kings 16:4 Cross References

Deuteronomy 12:2

“You must demolish completely all the places where the nations whom you are about to dispossess served their gods, on the mountain heights, on the hills, and under every leafy tree.

1 Kings 14:23

For they also built for themselves high places, pillars, and sacred poles on every high hill and under every green tree;

Jeremiah 17:2

while their children remember their altars and their sacred poles beside every green tree and on the high hills,

Isaiah 66:17

Those who sanctify and purify themselves to go into the gardens, following the one in the center, eating the flesh of pigs, vermin, and rodents, shall come to an end together, says the Lord,

Isaiah 65:4

who sit inside tombs and spend the night in secret places; who eat the flesh of pigs, with broth of abominable things in their vessels;

2 Kings 14:4

But the high places were not removed; the people still sacrificed and made offerings on the high places.

Psalm 78:58

For they provoked him to anger with their high places; they moved him to jealousy with their idols.

Ezekiel 6:13

And you shall know that I am the Lord when their slain lie among their idols around their altars, on every high hill, on all the mountaintops, under every green tree, and under every leafy oak, wherever they offered pleasing odor to all their idols.

2 Kings 12:4

Jehoash said to the priests, “All the silver offered as sacred donations that is brought into the house of the Lord—the census tax, personal redemption payments, and silver from voluntary offerings brought into the house of the Lord—

Ezekiel 43:7

He said to me: “Mortal, this is the place of my throne and the place for the soles of my feet, where I will reside among the people of Israel forever. The house of Israel shall no more defile my holy name, neither they nor their kings, by their prostitution and by sacrificing to their kings at their death.