2 Chronicles 28:4
in 2 Chronicles 28And he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.
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ASV
And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.
KJV
He sacrificed also and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.
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This verse in 2 Chronicles 28
Commentary
3 notes on this verseA commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
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 gross idolatry practised by the Canaanites.
This site's exposition
under every green tree
on 2 Chronicles 28:4-6
Chronicles gives a count Kings never gives, 120,000 valiant men killed by Pekah in one day. The narrator states the cause, “because they had forsaken the LORD, the God of their fathers”. 2 Kings 16 sums up the war in one clause about a failed siege.
The record, by era
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
proposed
He sacrificed also etc - Compare 2Ki 16:4.
The words behind it
9 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וַיְזַבֵּ֧חַ | vayzabeach | and he sacrificed | H2076 → | 134 times |
| וַיְקַטֵּ֛ר | vaykater | and he made smoke | H6999 → | 116 times |
| בַּבָּמ֖וֹת | babamot | at the high places | H1116 → | 102 times |
| וְעַל־ | veal- | and on | H5921 → | 5755 times |
| הַגְּבָע֑וֹת | hagevaot | the hills | H1389 → | |
| וְתַ֖חַת | vetachat | and under | H8478 → | 505 times |
| כָּל־ | kol- | every | H3605 → | 5413 times |
| עֵ֥ץ | ʾetz | tree | H6086 → | 328 times |
| רַעֲנָֽן׃ | raanan | luxuriant | H7488 → |
וַיְזַבֵּ֧חַand he sacrificed
vayzabeachH2076 →134 times
וַיְקַטֵּ֛רand he made smoke
vaykaterH6999 →116 times
בַּבָּמ֖וֹתat the high places
babamotH1116 →102 times
וְעַל־and on
veal-H5921 →5755 times
הַגְּבָע֑וֹתthe hills
hagevaotH1389 →
וְתַ֖חַתand under
vetachatH8478 →505 times
כָּל־every
kol-H3605 →5413 times
עֵ֥ץtree
ʾetzH6086 →328 times
רַעֲנָֽן׃luxuriant
raananH7488 →
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
2 Kings 16:4And he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.
it leads to
- Deuteronomy 12:2
Destroy completely all the places where the nations you are dispossessing have served their gods—atop the high mountains, on the hills, and under every green tree.
- 1 Kings 14:23
They also built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.
- Ezekiel 20:28–29
When I brought them into the land that I swore to give them and they saw any high hill or leafy tree, there they offered their sacrifices, presented offerings that provoked Me, sent up…
- Isaiah 57:5–7
who burn with lust among the oaks, under every luxuriant tree, who slaughter your children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks?
- Deuteronomy 12:2
Through
Leviticus 26:30I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars, and heap your lifeless bodies on the lifeless remains of your idols; and My soul will despise you.
it leads to
- 2 Kings 23:20
On the altars he slaughtered all the priests of the high places, and he burned human bones on them. Then he returned to Jerusalem.
- Ezekiel 6:13
Then you will know that I am the LORD, when their slain lie among their idols around their altars, on every high hill, on all the mountaintops, and under every green tree and leafy…
- Isaiah 27:9
Therefore Jacob’s guilt will be atoned for, and the full fruit of the removal of his sin will be this: When he makes all the altar stones like crushed bits of chalk, no Asherah…
- Ezekiel 6:3–6
You are to say: ‘O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD! This is what the Lord GOD says to the mountains and hills, to the ravines and valleys: I am…
- 2 Kings 23:20
Where this verse is studied
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About 2 Chronicles

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869) and Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible.
