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2 Kings 16:4

2 Kings chapter 16 · verse 4 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

Context

v.3But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yea, and made his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the nations, whom Jehovah cast out from before the children of Israel.

v.4This passage

v.5Then Rezin king of Syria and Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel came up to Jerusalem to war: and they besieged Ahaz, but could not overcome him.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Isaiah 66:17

    They that sanctify themselves and purify themselves to go unto the gardens, behind one in the midst, eating swine’s flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, they shall come to an end together, saith Jehovah.

  • Isaiah 57:5

    ye that inflame yourselves among the oaks, under every green tree; that slay the children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks?

  • Isaiah 65:4

    that sit among the graves, and lodge in the secret places; that eat swine’s flesh, and broth of abominable things is in their vessels;

  • Jeremiah 17:2

    whilst their children remember their altars and their Asherim by the green trees upon the high hills.

  • 1 Kings 14:23

    For they also built them high places, and pillars, and Asherim, on every high hill, and under every green tree;

  • 2 Kings 14:4

    Howbeit the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.