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Literal Standard Version

2 Chronicles 28:4

and sacrifices and makes incense in high places, and on the heights, 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

Christian Standard Bible®
He sacrificed and burned incense on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.
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 [is] a son of twenty years in his reigning, and he has reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem, and he has not done that which is right in the eyes of YHWH, as his father David, 2and walks in the ways of the kings of Israel, and has also made molten images for Ba‘alim, 3and has made incense himself in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, and burns his sons with fire according to the abominations of the nations that YHWH dispossessed from the presence of the sons of Israel, 4and sacrifices and makes incense in high places, and on the heights, and under every green tree.5And his God YHWH gives him into the hand of the king of Aram, and they strike him, and take captive a great captivity from him, and bring [them] to Damascus, and he has also been given into the hand of the king of Israel, and he strikes him [with] a great striking.

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
And YHWH appears to Abram and says, "To your seed I give this land"; and there he builds an altar to YHWH, who has appeared to him.
Genesis 28:1
And Isaac calls to Jacob, and blesses him, and commands him, and says to him, "You must not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan;
Genesis 28:3
and God Almighty bless you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and you have become an assembly of peoples;
Genesis 28:5
And Isaac sends Jacob away, and he goes to Padan-Aram, to Laban, son of Bethuel the Aramean, brother of Rebekah, mother of Jacob and Esau.
Genesis 28:6
And Esau sees that Isaac has blessed Jacob, and has sent him to Padan-Aram to take to himself from there a wife—in his blessing him that he lays a charge on him, saying, You must not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan—
Genesis 28:7
that Jacob listens to his father and to his mother, and goes to Padan-Aram—
Genesis 28:8
and Esau sees that the daughters of Canaan are evil in the eyes of his father Isaac,
Genesis 28:9
and Esau goes to Ishmael, and takes Mahalath, daughter of Ishmael, Abraham's son, sister of Nebajoth, to his wives, to himself, for a wife.
Genesis 28:12
And he dreams, and behold, a ladder set up on the earth, and its head is touching the heavens; and behold, messengers of God are going up and coming down by it;
Genesis 28:13
and behold, YHWH is standing on it, and He says, "I [am] YHWH, God of your father Abraham, and God of Isaac; the land on which you are lying, to you I give it, and to your seed;

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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