2 Chronicles 28:4
He sacrificed also and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.
2 Chronicles 28:4 in other translations
| BSB | And he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree. |
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| WEB | He sacrificed and burned incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree. |
| ASV | And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree. |
| YLT | and sacrificeth and maketh perfume in high places, and on the heights, and under every green tree. |
| DARBY | And he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree. |
| BBE | And he made offerings and had perfumes burned in the high places and on the hills and under every green tree. |
| Webster | He sacrificed also and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree. |
What does 2 Chronicles 28:4 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 2 Chronicles 28:1-4
2Ch 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…
2 Chronicles 28:4 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for 2 Chronicles 28:4
- Leviticus 26:30
And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you.
- 2 Kings 16:4
And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.
- Deuteronomy 12:2-3
Ye shall utterly destroy all the places, wherein the nations which ye shall possess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree: And ye shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their groves with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods, and destroy the names of them out of that place.
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Context
- 2 Chronicles 28:3
Moreover he burnt incense in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and burnt his children in the fire, after the abominations of the heathen whom the Lord had cast out before the children of Israel.
- 2 Chronicles 28:4
He sacrificed also and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.
- 2 Chronicles 28:5
Wherefore the Lord his God delivered him into the hand of the king of Syria; and they smote him, and carried away a great multitude of them captives, and brought them to Damascus. And he was also delivered into the hand of the king of Israel, who smote him with a great slaughter.
2 Chronicles 28:4 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Asimismo sacrificó y quemó perfumes en los altos, y en los collados, y debajo de todo árbol espeso. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Et il sacrifiait et faisait fumer de l’encens sur les hauts lieux, et sur les collines, et sous tout arbre vert. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | und er opferte und räucherte auf den Höhen und auf den Hügeln und unter jedem grünen Baume. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Sacrificabat quoque, et thymiama succendebat in excelsis, et in collibus, et sub omni ligno frondoso. |