2 Kings 16:4 - The Scriptures 2009

⁴ And he slaughtered and burned incense on the high places, and 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

“Completely destroy all the places where the nations which you are dispossessing served their mighty ones, on the high mountains and on the hills and under every green tree.

1 Kings 14:23

For they also built for themselves high places, and pillars, and Ashĕrim on every high hill and under every green tree.

Jeremiah 17:2

while their children remember their slaughter-places and their Ashĕrim by the spreading trees on the high hills.

Isaiah 66:17

those who set themselves apart and cleanse themselves at the gardens after ‘one’ in the midst, eating flesh of pigs and the abomination and the mouse, are snatched away, together,” declares יהוה.

Isaiah 65:4

who sit among the burial-sites, and spend the night in secret places, who eat flesh of pigs, and the broth of unclean meat is in their pots,

2 Kings 14:4

However, the high places were not taken away. The people still slaughtered and burned incense on the high places.

Psalm 78:58

For they enraged Him with their high places, And moved Him to jealousy with their carved images.

Ezekiel 6:13

And you shall know that I am יהוה, when their slain are among their idols all around their slaughter-places, on every high hill, on all the mountaintops, under every green tree, and under every thick oak, wherever they offered sweet incense to all their idols.

2 Kings 12:4

And Yeho’ash said to the priests, “All the silver of the set-apart gifts that are brought into the House of יהוה, the silver coming over, each man’s assessment silver, all the silver that a man purposes in his heart to bring into the House of יהוה,

Ezekiel 43:7

And He said to me, “Son of man, this is the place of My throne and the place of the soles of My feet, when I dwell in the midst of the children of Yisra’ĕl forever, and the house of Yisra’ĕl shall no longer defile My set-apart Name, they nor their sovereigns, by their whoring and by the corpses of their sovereigns on their high places.