2 Kings 16:4 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁴And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.

2 Kings 16:4 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Deuteronomy 12:2
Ye shall utterly destroy all the places, wherein the nations which ye shall possess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree:
1 Kings 14:23
For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree.
Isaiah 66:17
They 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, saith the LORD.
Isaiah 65:4
Which remain among the graves, and lodge in the monuments, which eat swine's flesh, and broth of abominable things is in their vessels;
Jeremiah 17:2
Whilst their children remember their altars and their groves by the green trees upon the high hills.

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Achaz Ahaz

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-4)

We have here a general character of the reign of Ahaz. Few and evil were his days—few, for he died at thirty-six—evil, for we are here told, 1. That he did not that which was right like David (2 Kgs. 16:2), that is, he had none of that concern and affection for the instituted service and worship of God for which David was celebrated. He had no love for the temple, made no conscience of his duty to…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 4)

2Ki 16:1-16. Ahaz’ Wicked Reign over Judah. 1-4. Ahaz ... did not that which was right in the sight of the Lord--[See on 2Ch 28:1.] The character of this king’s reign, the voluptuousness and religious degeneracy of all classes of the people, are graphically portrayed in the writings of Isaiah, who prophesied at that period. The great increase of worldly wealth and luxury in the reigns of Azariah a…