Verse 4

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

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  • Deut 12:2 : 2 You shall completely destroy all the places where the nations you are dispossessing served their gods, on the high mountains, on the hills, and under every green tree:
  • 1 Kgs 14:23 : 23 For they also built for themselves high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree.
  • 2 Kgs 14:4 : 4 However, the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.
  • Isa 57:5-7 : 5 Inflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the cliffs of the rocks? 6 Among the smooth stones of the stream is your portion; they, they are your lot. To them you have poured a drink offering, you have offered a meat offering. Should I find comfort in these? 7 On a lofty and high mountain you have set your bed; even there you went up to offer sacrifice.
  • Isa 65:4 : 4 Who sit among the graves, and spend the night in secret places; who eat pig's flesh, and broth of abominable things is in their vessels;
  • Isa 66:17 : 17 Those that sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the gardens behind one tree in the midst, eating swine's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, shall be consumed together, says the LORD.
  • Jer 17:2 : 2 While their children remember their altars and their groves by the green trees upon the high hills.
  • Ezek 20:28-29 : 28 For when I had brought them into the land, for which I lifted up my hand to give it to them, then they saw every high hill, and all the thick trees, and they offered there their sacrifices, and there they presented the provoking of their offering: there also they made their sweet savor, and poured out there their drink offerings. 29 Then I said to them, What is the high place to which you go? And its name is called Bamah to this day.