2 Kings 16:4

Coverdale Bible (1535)

And he dyd sacrifice, and brent incense vpon the hye places, & vpon all hilles, and amonge all grene trees.

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 12:2 : 2 Destroye all the places, wherin ye Heithen (who ye shal conquere) haue serued their goddes, whether it be vpo hye mountaynes, vpo hilles, or amonge grene trees.
  • 1 Kgs 14:23 : 23 for they likewyse buylded them hye places, pilers, and groues vpo euery hye hill, and amonge all grene trees.
  • 2 Kgs 14:4 : 4 for ye hye places were not put downe, but the people offred and brent incese yet vpon the hye places.
  • Isa 57:5-7 : 5 Ye take youre pleasure vnder the okes, & vnder all grene trees, the childe beynge slayne in the valleys, & dennes of stone. 6 Thy parte shalbe with the stony rockes by the ryuer: Yee euen these shal be thy parte. For there thou hast poured meat and drynkoffringes vnto the. Shulde I ouersee that? 7 Thou hast made thy bed vpon hie mountaynes, thou wentest vp thither, and there hast thou slayne sacrifices.
  • Isa 65:4 : 4 they lurck amonge the graues, and lie in the dennes all night. They eate swyne flesh, and vnclene broth is in their vessels.
  • Isa 66:17 : 17 Soch as haue made themselues holy and cleane in the gardens, and those that haue eaten swyne flesh, myce, and other abhominacios, shalbe taken awaye together, saieth the LORDE.
  • Jer 17:2 : 2 yt youre children also maye thynke vpon youre aulters, woddes, thicke trees, hie hilles, mountaynes & feldes.
  • Ezek 20:28-29 : 28 For after I had brought them in to the londe, yt I promysed to geue them, when they sawe euery hie hill & all the thicke trees: they made there their offringes, and prouoked me with their oblacions, makinge swete sauoures there, & poured out their drinkeofferinges. 29 Then I axed them: what haue ye to do with all, that ye go thither? And therfore is it called the hie place vnto this daye.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 2 Chr 28:1-4
    4 verses
    92%

    1Achas was twentye yeare olde whan he was made kynge, and reigned sixtene yeare at Ierusalem, and dyd not that which was righte in the sighte of the LORDE, as did Dauid his father,

    2but walked in the wayes of the kinges of Israel, and made molten ymages vnto Baalim,

    3and brent incense in the valley of the children of Hennon, and bret his awne sonnes in ye fire, after the abhominacions of the Heithen, who the LORDE expelled before the childre of Israel.

    4And he dyd sacrifice and brent incense vpon the hye places and vpon the hilles, and amoge all grene trees.

  • 2 Kgs 16:3
    84%

    3for he walked in the waye of the kynges of Israel, Yee and caused his sonne to go thorow the fyre, after the maner of the abhominacions of the Heythen, whom the LORDE droue awaye before the childre of Israel.

  • 2 Kgs 15:4
    79%

    4sauynge that they put not downe the hye places. For the people dyd sacryfice and brent incense yet vpon the hye places.

  • 2 Kgs 16:9-16
    8 verses
    77%

    9And ye kinge of Assiria cosented vnto him, & wente vp to Damascon, & wanne it, & caried them awaye vnto Cira, & slewe Rezin.

    10And kynge Achas wete to Damascon for to mete Teglatphalasser ye kynge of Assiria. And wha he sawe an altare yt was at Damascon, kynge Achas sent a patrone & symilitude of ye same altare vnto the prest Vrias, euen as it was made.

    11And Vrias the prest buylded an altare, and made it acordinge as kynge Achas had sent vnto him from Damascon, tyll Achas ye kynge came from Damascon.

    12And whan ye kynge came from Damascon, and sawe the altare, he offred theron,

    13& kyndled his burntofferynges and meatofferynges vpon it, and poured his drynkofferinges theron, & caused the bloude of ye deedofferynges which he offred, to be sprenkled vpon the altare.

    14But the brasen altare that stode before the LORDE, put he awaye, so that it stode not betwene the altare and the house of the LORDE, but set it in the corner on the north syde of the altare.

    15And Achas the kynge comaunded Vrias ye prest, & sayde: Vpo the greate altare shalt thou kyndle ye burntoffrynge in the mornynge, & the meatoffrynge in the euenynge, & the kynges burntoffrynge & his meatoffrynge, & the burntoffrynge of all the people in the londe, wt their meatoffrynge & drynkoffrynge. And all the bloude of the burntofferynges, & all the bloude of the other offrynges shalt thou sprenkle theron: but with the brasen altare wyll I deuyse what I can.

    16Vrias the prest dyd all acordinge as Achas the kynge commaunded him.

  • 2 Chr 28:22-25
    4 verses
    77%

    22Morouer kinge Achas trespaced yet more against the LORDE euen in his trouble,

    23and dyd sacrifyce vnto the goddes of them of Damascon, which had smitten him, & sayde: The goddes of the kynges of Syria helpe them, therfore wil I offre vnto them, that they maye helpe me also, where as the same yet were a fall vnto him and to all Israel.

    24And Achas gathered the vessels of ye house of God together, and brake the vessels in ye house of God, & shut the dores of the house of ye LORDE, and made him altares in all corners at Ierusalem,

    25and euery where in the cyties of Iuda made he hye places to burne incense vnto other goddes, and prouoked ye LORDE God of his fathers vnto wrath.

  • 2 Kgs 14:4
    77%

    4for ye hye places were not put downe, but the people offred and brent incese yet vpon the hye places.

  • 1 Kgs 14:23
    76%

    23for they likewyse buylded them hye places, pilers, and groues vpo euery hye hill, and amonge all grene trees.

  • 2 Kgs 17:10-11
    2 verses
    75%

    10and set vp pilers and groues, vpon all hye hilles, and amonge all grene trees,

    11and brent incense there in all ye hye places, euen as dyd the Heythen, whom the LORDE had cast out before them, & wroughte wicked thinges, wherwith they prouoked the LORDE vnto wrath,

  • 2 Kgs 21:3
    75%

    3and builded vp the hye places which his father Ezechias had destroyed, and sett vp Baals altares, and made groues (as Achab the kynge of Israel dyd) and worshipped all the hoost of heauen, and serued them.

  • 2 Chr 33:3
    74%

    3and buylded the hye places, ( which his father Ezechies had broken downe) and set vp altares vnto Baalim, and made groues, and worshipped all the hoost of heauen, and serued them.

  • 2 Chr 32:12
    74%

    12Is it not Ezechias, that hath put awaye his hye places and altares, and sayde vnto Iuda and Ierusalem: Before one altare shal ye worshippe, and burne incense theron?

  • 2 Kgs 12:3
    74%

    3But they put not downe ye hye places: for the people offred & brent incense yet vpon the hye places.

  • 2 Kgs 15:35
    73%

    35sauynge that he put not downe the hye places: for the people offred & brent incense yet vpon the hye places. He buylded the hye porte of the house of the LORDE.

  • 2 Chr 34:3-5
    3 verses
    72%

    3For in the eight yeare of his reigne wha he was yet but a childe, he beganne to seke the God of his father Dauid: and in the twolueth yeare begane he to clense Iuda and Ierusale from the hye places and groues, and carued Idols, and molten ymages:

    4and caused the altares of Baalim to be broken downe before him, and the ymages that were theron, hewed he downe. And ye groues and carued Idols and molte ymages brake he in peces, and made them to dust, and scatred it vpon the graues of them that had offred vnto them.

    5And the bones of the prestes brent he vpo the altares, and so clesed he Iuda & Ierusale,

  • 2 Chr 26:16
    72%

    16And whan his power was greate, his hert arose to his awne destruccion: for he trespaced agaynst the LORDE his God, and wente in to the temple of the LORDE, to burne incense vpon the altare of incense.

  • Hos 4:13
    72%

    13They make sacrifice vpon the hie mountaynes, & burne their incense vpon the hilles, yee amonge the okes, groues & bu?shes, for there are good shadowes. Therfore yor doughters are become harlottes, and youre spouses haue broke their wedlocke

  • Jer 17:2
    72%

    2yt youre children also maye thynke vpon youre aulters, woddes, thicke trees, hie hilles, mountaynes & feldes.

  • 2 Kgs 23:12-15
    4 verses
    72%

    12and the altares vpon the rofe of Achabs perler, which the kynges of Iuda had made. And the altares which Manasses had made in the two courtes of the house of the LORDE, dyd the kynge breake downe. And ranne from thence, and cast the dust of them in to the broke Cedron.

    13And the hye places that were before Ierusalem on the righte hande of Mount Mashith which Salomon the kynge of Israel had buylded vnto Astaroth the abhomynacion of Sidon, and to Camos the abhominacion of Moab, and to Malcom the abhominacion of the children of Ammon, those did the kynge suspende,

    14and brake the pilers, and roted out the groues, and fylled their places with mens bones.

    15And the altare at Bethel, and the hye place that Ieroboam the sonne of Nebat made, which caused Israel to synne, the same altare brake he downe, and the hye place, & brent the hye place, and made it to dust, and brent vp the groue.

  • 2 Kgs 23:6
    72%

    6And the groue caused he to be caryed from the house of the LORDE out of Ierusalem in to ye valley of Cedron, and brent it in the valley of Cedron, and made it to dust, and cast the dust vpon the graues of ye comen people.

  • 2 Chr 33:5-6
    2 verses
    71%

    5And vnto all the hoost of heauen buylded he altares in both the courtes of ye house of the LORDE.

    6And in the valley of the sonne of Hennon caused he his awne sonnes to go thorow the fyre, and chosed dayes, & regarded byrdescryenge, and witches, and founded soythsayers and expounders of tokens, and dyd moch that was euell in the sighte of the LORDE to prouoke him vnto wrath.

  • 2 Kgs 16:5
    71%

    5Then wente Rezin the kynge of Syria, and Pecah the sonne of Romelia kynge of Israel vp to Ierusalem to fighte agaynst it, and layed sege to Achas: but they coulde not wynne it.

  • Isa 57:5
    71%

    5Ye take youre pleasure vnder the okes, & vnder all grene trees, the childe beynge slayne in the valleys, & dennes of stone.

  • 2 Kgs 21:5-6
    2 verses
    71%

    5And in both the courtes of the house of the LORDE buylded he altares vnto all the hoost of heaue.

    6And caused his sonne to go thorow the fyre, and regarded byrdes cryenge and tokens, and maynteyned soythsayers, and expounders of tokens, and so moch dyd he of this which was euell in the sight of the LORDE, that he prouoked him vnto wrath.

  • 2 Chr 14:3
    71%

    3and put awaye the straunge altares, and the hye places, and brake the pilers, and hewed downe the groues,

  • Jer 19:13
    70%

    13(For the houses of Ierusale & the houses of the kinges of Iuda are defyled, like as Tophet,) because off all the houses, in whose parlers they dyd sacrifice vnto all the hooste of heaue, and poured out drynke offringes vnto straunge goddes.

  • 2 Chr 21:11
    70%

    11He made hye places also on the mountaynes in Iuda, & caused them of Ierusale to go awhorynge, and disceaued Iuda.

  • 1 Kgs 16:32
    69%

    32And vnto Baal he set vp an altare in Baals house, which he buylded him in Samaria,

  • 2 Kgs 16:18
    69%

    18And the pulpit for the Sabbath which they had buylded in the house, and ye entrye of the kynges house turned he vnto the house of the LORDE, for the kynge of Assirias sake.

  • 2 Kgs 23:10
    69%

    10He suspended Tophet also in the valley of the children of Ennon, that noman shulde cause his sonne or his doughter to go thorow ye fyre vnto Moloch.