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

2Instead, he followed the example of the kings of Israel. He cast metal images for the worship of Baal. 3He offered sacrifices in the valley of Ben-Hinnom, even sacrificing his own sons in the fire. In this way, he followed the detestable practices of the pagan nations the Lord had driven from the land ahead of the Israelites. He offered sacrifices and burned incense at the pagan shrines and on the hills and under every green tree. 5Because of all this, the Lord his God allowed the king of Aram to defeat Ahaz and to exile large numbers of his people to Damascus. The armies of the king of Israel also defeated Ahaz and inflicted many casualties on his army. 6In a single day Pekah son of Remaliah, Israel’s king, killed 120,000 of Judah’s troops, all of them experienced warriors, because they had abandoned the Lord, the 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 pagan shrines and knock down your places of worship. I will leave your lifeless corpses piled on top of your lifeless idols, and I will despise you.
• Deuteronomy 12:2“When you drive out the nations that live there, you must destroy all the places where they worship their gods—high on the mountains, up on the hills, and under every green tree.
• 2 Kings 16:4He offered sacrifices and burned incense at the pagan shrines 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

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