2 Kings 16:4

Geneva Bible (1560)

Also he offred and burnt incense in the hie places & on the hilles, & vnder euery greene tree.

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  • Deut 12:2 : 2 Yee shall vtterly destroy all the places wherein the nations which ye shal possesse, serued their gods vpon the hie mountaines and vpon the hilles, and vnder euery greene tree.
  • 1 Kgs 14:23 : 23 For they also made them hie places, and images, and groues on euery hie hill, and vnder euery greene tree.
  • 2 Kgs 14:4 : 4 Notwithstanding the hie places were not taken away: for as yet the people did sacrifice and burnt incense in the hie places.
  • Isa 57:5-7 : 5 Inflamed with idoles vnder euery greene tree? and sacrificing the children in the valleys vnder the tops of the rocks? 6 Thy portion is in the smooth stones of the riuer: they, they are thy lot: euen to them hast thou powred a drinke offering: thou hast offered a sacrifice. Should I delite in these? 7 Thou hast made thy bed vpon a very hie mountaine: thou wentest vp thither, euen thither wentest thou to offer sacrifice.
  • Isa 65:4 : 4 Which remaine among the graues, and lodge in the desarts, which eate swines flesh, and the broth of things polluted are in their vessels.
  • Isa 66:17 : 17 They that sanctifie themselues, and purifie themselues in the gardens behinde one tree in the middes eating swines flesh, and such abomination, euen the mouse, shall be consumed together, sayeth the Lord.
  • Jer 17:2 : 2 They remember their altars as their children, with their groues by the greene trees vpon the hilles.
  • Ezek 20:28-29 : 28 For when I had brought them into the land, for the which I lifted vp mine hand to giue it to them, then they saw euery hie hill, and all the thicke trees, and they offred there their sacrifices, and there they presented their offering of prouocation: there also they made their sweete sauour, and powred out there their drinke offerings. 29 Then I saide vnto them, What is the hie place whereunto ye goe? And the name thereof was called Bamah vnto this day.

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    1Ahaz was twentie yeere old when he began to reigne, and reigned sixteene yeere in Ierusalem, and did not vprightly in the sight of the Lord, like Dauid his father.

    2But he walked in the wayes of ye Kings of Israel, & made euen molten images for Baalim.

    3Moreouer he burnt incense in the valley of Ben-hinnom, & burnt his sonnes with fire, after the abominations of the heathen whom the Lord had cast out before the children of Israel.

    4He sacrificed also and burnt incense in the hie places, and on hilles, and vnder euery greene tree.

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    3But walked in the way of ye kings of Israel, yea, and made his sonne to go through the fire, after the abominations of the heathen, whom the Lord had cast out before the children of Israel.

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    9And the King of Asshur consented vnto him: and the King of Asshur went vp against Damascus; when he had taken it, he caryed the people away to Kir, and slew Rezin.

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    14And set it by the brasen altar which was before the Lord, and brought it in farther before the house betweene the altar & the house of the Lord, and set it on the North side of the altar.

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    16And Vriiah the Priest did according to all that King Ahaz had commanded.

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    22And in ye time of his tribulation did he yet trespasse more against ye Lord, (this is King Ahaz)

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    5And he built altars for al the hoste of ye heauen in the two courtes of the house of the Lord.

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    10He defiled also Topheth, which was in the valley of the children of Hinnom, that no man shoulde make his sonne or his daughter passe through the fire to Molech.