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

2He followed in the footsteps of the kings of Israel; he also made images of the Baals. 3He offered sacrifices in the Valley of Ben-Hinnom and passed his sons through the fire, a horrible sin practiced by the nations whom the Lord drove out before the Israelites. He offered sacrifices and burned incense on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree. 5The Lord his God handed him over to the king of Syria. The Syrians defeated him and deported many captives to Damascus. He was also handed over to the king of Israel, who thoroughly defeated him. 6In one day King Pekah son of Remaliah of Israel killed 120,000 warriors in Judah, because they had abandoned the Lord God of their ancestors.

2 Chronicles 28:4 word by word

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

Words taken from the KJV.

• He sacrificedזָבַחzâbach · to sacrificeH2076
• also and burnt incenseקָטַרqâţar · to offer: offerH6999
• in the high placesבָּמָהbâmâh · high placeH1116
• and on the hillsגִּבְעָהgib‛âh · hillH1389
• and under every greenרַעֲנָןra‛ănân · luxuriantH7488
• treeעֵץ‛êts · treeH6086

Cross-references for 2 Chronicles 28:4

• Leviticus 26:30I will destroy your high places and cut down your incense altars, and I will stack your dead bodies on top of the lifeless bodies of your idols. I will abhor you.
• Deuteronomy 12:2You must by all means destroy all the places where the nations you are about to dispossess worship their gods – on the high mountains and hills and under every leafy tree.
• 2 Kings 16:4He offered sacrifices and burned incense on the high places, 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

In the dictionaries

• Ahaz
• Offend
• Reach
• Ruin
• Trespass
• Apostasy; Apostate
• Color; Colors
• High Place
• Oded
• Samaria, City of

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