2 Chronicles 28:4 BSB

2 Chronicles 28:4

And he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.

BSB

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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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Commentary

1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

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.

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Original language & word study

9 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיְזַבֵּ֧חַ	vay.za.Be.ach	and he sacrificed	H2076 →
וַיְקַטֵּ֛ר	vay.ka.Ter	and he made smoke	H6999 →
בַּבָּמ֖וֹת	ba.ba.Mot	at the high places	H1116 →
וְעַל־	ve.'al-	and on	H5921 →
הַגְּבָע֑וֹת	ha.ge.va.'ot	the hills	H1389 →
וְתַ֖חַת	ve.Ta.chat	and under	H8478 →
כָּל־	kol-	every	H3605 →
עֵ֥ץ	'etz	tree	H6086 →
רַעֲנָֽן׃	ra.'a.Nan	luxuriant	H7488 →

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The walk

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Where the connections lead

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Through
2 Kings 16:4
And he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.
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?
Through
Leviticus 26:30
I 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.
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…

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Solomon Receives the Queen of Sheba — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

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02Original language & word study

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06About 2 Chronicles

Where the connections lead

Commentary

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The walk

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About 2 Chronicles