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Christian Standard Bible ®

2 Chronicles 28:4

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

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Ahaz;   Rulers;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Idolatry;   Jerusalem;   Kings;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Ahaz;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Chronicles, Books of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Chronicles, I;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Ahaz ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Ahaz;   Amasa;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Kingdom of Judah;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Apostasy;   Color;   High Place;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Groves and Sacred Trees;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
He sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.
King James Version
He sacrificed also and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.
English Standard Version
And he sacrificed and made offerings on the high places and on the hills and under every green tree.
New Century Version
Ahaz offered sacrifices and burned incense at the places where gods were worshiped, and on the hills, and under every green tree.
New English Translation
He offered sacrifices and burned incense on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.
Amplified Bible
He also sacrificed and burned incense on the high places [of pagan worship], on the hills and under every green tree.
New American Standard Bible
He sacrificed and burned incense on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.
World English Bible
He sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.
Geneva Bible (1587)
He sacrificed also and burnt incense in the hie places, and on hilles, and vnder euery greene tree.
Legacy Standard Bible
He also sacrificed and offered offerings in smoke on the high places and on the hills and under every green tree.
Berean Standard Bible
And he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.
Contemporary English Version
Ahaz offered sacrifices at the local shrines, as well as on every hill and in the shade of large trees.
Complete Jewish Bible
He also sacrificed and offered on the high places, on the hills and under any green tree.
Darby Translation
And he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.
Easy-to-Read Version
Ahaz offered sacrifices and burned incense in the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.
George Lamsa Translation
And he sacrificed also and burned incense upon the altars and on high places and under every beautiful tree.
Good News Translation
At the pagan places of worship, on the hills, and under every shady tree Ahaz offered sacrifices and burned incense.
Lexham English Bible
And he sacrificed and burned incense at the high places, on the hilltops, and under every flourishing tree.
Literal Translation
and sacrificed and burned incense in the high places, and on the heights, and under every green tree.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And he dyd sacrifice and brent incense vpon the hye places and vpon the hilles, and amoge all grene trees.
American Standard Version
And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.
Bible in Basic English
And he made offerings and had perfumes burned in the high places and on the hills and under every green tree.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
He offered also and burnt incense in the high places, and on mountaynes, and vnder euery greene tree.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And he sacrificed and offered in the high places, and on the hills, and under every leafy tree.
King James Version (1611)
Hee sacrificed also, and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hils, and vnder euery greene tree.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And he burnt incense upon the high places, and upon the roofs, and under every shady tree.
English Revised Version
And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Also he made sacrifice, and brente encense in hiy places, and in hillis, and vndur ech tree ful of bowis.
Update Bible Version
And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.
Webster's Bible Translation
He sacrificed also and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.
New King James Version
And he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.
New Living Translation
He offered sacrifices and burned incense at the pagan shrines and on the hills and under every green tree.
New Life Bible
He gave gifts in worship and burned special perfume on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.
New Revised Standard
He sacrificed and made offerings on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and upon the hills, - and under every green tree.
Douay-Rheims Bible
He sacrificed also, and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.
Revised Standard Version
And he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.
Young's Literal Translation
and sacrificeth and maketh perfume in high places, and on the heights, and under every green tree.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
He sacrificed and burned incense on the high places, on the hills and under every green tree.

Contextual Overview

1Ahaz was twenty years old when he became king, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. He did not do what was right in the Lord’s sight like his ancestor David, 2for he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel and made cast images of the Baals. 3He burned incense in Ben Hinnom Valley and burned his children in the fire, imitating the detestable practices of the nations the Lord had dispossessed before the Israelites. 4He sacrificed and burned incense on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.5So the Lord his God handed Ahaz over to the king of Aram. He attacked him and took many captives to Damascus.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Leviticus 26:30, Deuteronomy 12:2, Deuteronomy 12:3, 2 Kings 16:4

Reciprocal: Leviticus 17:5 - in the open 1 Kings 14:23 - groves 2 Kings 15:30 - in the twentieth

Cross-References

Genesis 12:7
The Lord appeared to Abram and said, “To your offspring I will give this land.” So he built an altar there to the Lord who had appeared to him.
Genesis 28:1
So Isaac summoned Jacob, blessed him, and commanded him, “Do not marry a Canaanite girl.
Genesis 28:3
May God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you so that you become an assembly of peoples.
Genesis 28:5
So Isaac sent Jacob to Paddan-aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, the mother of Jacob and Esau.
Genesis 28:6
Esau noticed that Isaac blessed Jacob and sent him to Paddan-aram to get a wife there. When he blessed him, Isaac commanded Jacob, “Do not marry a Canaanite girl.”
Genesis 28:7
And Jacob listened to his father and mother and went to Paddan-aram.
Genesis 28:8
Esau realized that his father Isaac disapproved of the Canaanite women,
Genesis 28:9
so Esau went to Ishmael and married, in addition to his other wives, Mahalath daughter of Ishmael, Abraham’s son. She was the sister of Nebaioth.
Genesis 28:12
And he dreamed: A stairway was set on the ground with its top reaching the sky, and God’s angels were going up and down on it.
Genesis 28:13
The Lord was standing there beside him, saying, “I am the Lord, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac. I will give you and your offspring the land on which you are lying.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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Barnes' Notes on the Bible

He sacrificed also etc - Compare 2 Kings 16:4.


 
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