2 Chronicles 28:4

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

2But he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel; he also made molten images for the Baals. 3Moreover, he burned incense in the valley of Ben-hinnom and burned his sons in fire, according to the abominations of the nations whom the Lord had driven out before the sons of Israel. He sacrificed and burned incense on the high places, on the hills and under every green tree. 5Wherefore, the Lord his God delivered him into the hand of the king of Aram; and they defeated him and carried away from him a great number of captives and brought them to Damascus. And he was also delivered into the hand of the king of Israel, who inflicted him with heavy casualties. 6For Pekah the son of Remaliah slew in Judah 120,000 in one day, all valiant men, because they had forsaken the Lord God of their fathers.

2 Chronicles 28:4 word by word

וַיְזַבֵּ֧חַ וַיְקַטֵּ֛ר בַּבָּמ֖וֹת וְעַל־הַגְּבָע֑וֹת וְתַ֖חַת כָּל־עֵ֥ץ רַעֲנָֽן׃Read the interlinear

• He sacrificedזָבַחzâbach · to sacrificeH2076
• burnedקָטַרqâţar · to offer: burnH6999
• on the highבָּמָהbâmâh · high placeH1116
• on the hillsגִּבְעָהgib‛âh · hillH1389
• and underתַּחַתtachath · underneath: underH8478
• everyכֹּלkôl kôl · allH3605
• greenרַעֲנָןra‛ănân · luxuriantH7488
• treeעֵץ‛êts · treeH6086

Cross-references for 2 Chronicles 28:4

• Leviticus 26:30I then will destroy your high places, and cut down your incense altars, and heap your remains on the remains of your idols, for My soul shall abhor you.
• Deuteronomy 12:2You shall utterly destroy all the places where the nations whom you shall dispossess serve their gods, on the high mountains and on the hills and under every green tree.
• 2 Kings 16:4He sacrificed and burned incense on the high places and on the hills and under every green tree.

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

Topics related to 2 Chronicles 28:4

• Ahaz
• Rulers

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• Ahaz
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• Reach
• Ruin
• Trespass
• Apostasy; Apostate
• Color; Colors
• High Place
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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