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2 Chronicles 28:4
4Ahaz offered sacrifices and he burned incense on altars on the hills, as well as under all the big trees.
2 Chronicles 28:4 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)He sacrificed also and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.
- New International Version (NIV)He offered sacrifices and burned incense at the high places, on the hilltops and under every spreading tree.
- English Standard Version (ESV)And he sacrificed and made offerings on the high places and on the hills and under every green tree.
- New King James Version (NKJV)And he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.
Context of 2 Chronicles 28:4
2He lived in the same bad way that the kings of Israel did. He also used metal to make images of the god Baal. 3He offered sacrifices in Ben-Hinnom Valley. He even caused his sons to walk through fire. In this way he copied the terrible sins of the other nations in Canaan. Those were the nations that the Lord had chased out so that the Israelites could live there. Ahaz offered sacrifices and he burned incense on altars on the hills, as well as under all the big trees. 5Because of this, the Lord his God put Ahaz under the power of the king of Syria. Syria's army won a battle against Ahaz's men. The king of Syria took many of Ahaz's people to Damascus as his prisoners. The Lord also allowed the king of Israel to attack Ahaz. Israel's soldiers completely won the battle against Ahaz. 6In one day, King Pekah of Israel, Remaliah's son, killed 120,000 of Judah's best soldiers. God punished the people of Judah because they had turned away from the Lord, the God of their ancestors.
Read all of 2 Chronicles 282 Chronicles 28:4 word by word
וַיְזַבֵּ֧חַ וַיְקַטֵּ֛ר בַּבָּמ֖וֹת וְעַל־הַגְּבָע֑וֹת וְתַ֖חַת כָּל־עֵ֥ץ רַעֲנָֽן׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for 2 Chronicles 28:4
- Leviticus 26:30The Lord will destroy the places where they worship false gods. He will destroy their very bad incense altars. He will put their dead bodies round their idols. He will hate them.
- Deuteronomy 12:2You will chase out the nations who live there. Then you must destroy completely all the places where those people worship their gods. Those places are on the tops of mountains and hills, and under big green trees.
- 2 Kings 16:4Ahaz offered sacrifices and he burned incense on altars on the hills, as well as under all the big trees.
Commentaries on 2 Chronicles 28:4
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 4He sacrificed also etc - Compare 2 Kings 16:4.Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 3-4Ahaz even sacrificed his own sons in the fire. He was copying the terrible actions of the Canaanites (see Deuteronomy 12:31; 18:9–10; Jeremiah 7:31; 19:5; 32:35).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-212Ch 28:1-21. Ahaz, Reigning Wickedly, Is Afflicted by the Syrians. 1-4. Ahaz was twenty years old--(See on 2Ki 16:1-4). This prince, discarding the principles and example of his excellent father, early betrayed a strong bias to idolatry. He ruled with an arbitrary and absolute authority, and not as a theocratic sovereign: he not only forsook the temple of God, but embraced first the symbolic worship established in the sister kingdom, and afterwards the…Read the comment
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Commentaries on 2 Chronicles 28
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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