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2 Kings 16:4
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KJ21
And 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.
AMP
He also sacrificed and burned incense on the high places and on the hills and under every green tree.
AMPC
He sacrificed and burned incense in the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.
BRG
And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.
CSB
He sacrificed and burned incense on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.
CSBA
He sacrificed and burned incense on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.
CEB
He also sacrificed and burned incense at the shrines on every hill and beneath every shady tree.
CJB
He also sacrificed and offered on the high places, on the hills and under any green tree.
CEV
Ahaz offered sacrifices at the local shrines, as well as on every hill and in the shade of large trees.
DARBY
And he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.
DRA
He sacrificed also and burnt incense in the high places and on the hills, and under every green tree.
ERV
Ahaz made sacrifices and burned incense at the high places and on the hills and under every green tree.
EASY
Ahaz offered sacrifices and he burned incense on altars on the hills, as well as under all the big trees.
EHV
He offered sacrifices and burned incense on the high places, on the hills, and under every leafy tree.
ESV
And he sacrificed and made offerings on the high places and on the hills and under every green tree.
ESVUK
And he sacrificed and made offerings on the high places and on the hills and under every green tree.
EXB
Ahaz offered sacrifices and burned incense at the ·places where gods were worshiped [L high places: 12:3], on the hills, and under every ·green [spreading] tree.
GNV
Also he offered and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.
GW
He offered sacrifices and burned incense as an offering at the illegal worship sites, which were on hills and under every large tree.
GNT
At the pagan places of worship, on the hills, and under every shady tree, Ahaz offered sacrifices and burned incense.
HCSB
He sacrificed and burned incense on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.
ICB
Ahaz offered sacrifices and burned incense at the places where false gods were worshiped. And he did this on the hills and under every green tree.
ISV
Furthermore, Ahaz sacrificed and burned incense on the high places, on top of hills, and under every green tree.
JUB
Likewise he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places and on the hills and under every green tree.
KJV
And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.
AKJV
And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.
LSB
He also sacrificed and burned incense on the high places and on the hills and under every green tree.
LEB
He sacrificed and offered incense on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.
TLB
He also sacrificed and burned incense at the shrines on the hills and at the numerous altars in the groves of trees.
MSG
In the seventeenth year of Pekah son of Remaliah, Ahaz son of Jotham became king of Judah. Ahaz was twenty years old when he became king and he ruled for sixteen years in Jerusalem. He didn’t behave in the eyes of his God; he wasn’t at all like his ancestor David. Instead he followed in the track of the kings of Israel. He even indulged in the outrageous practice of “passing his son through the fire”—a truly abominable act he picked up from the pagans God had earlier thrown out of the country. He also participated in the activities of the neighborhood sex-and-religion shrines that flourished all over the place.
MEV
He sacrificed and made offerings on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.
NOG
He offered sacrifices and burned incense as an offering at the illegal worship sites, which were on hills and under every large tree.
NABRE
Further, he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places, on hills, and under every green tree.
NASB
And he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.
NASB1995
He sacrificed and burned incense on the high places and on the hills and under every green tree.
NCB
He performed sacrifices and burned incense on the high places, on the hilltops, and under every green tree.
NCV
Ahaz offered sacrifices and burned incense at the places where gods were worshiped, on the hills, and under every green tree.
NET
He offered sacrifices and burned incense on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.
NIRV
Ahaz offered sacrifices and burned incense at the high places. He also did it on the tops of hills and under every green tree.
NIV
He offered sacrifices and burned incense at the high places, on the hilltops and under every spreading tree.
NIVUK
He offered sacrifices and burned incense at the high places, on the hilltops and under every spreading tree.
NKJV
And he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.
NLV
And Ahaz gave gifts in worship and burned special perfume on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.
NLT
He offered sacrifices and burned incense at the pagan shrines and on the hills and under every green tree.
NRSVA
He sacrificed and made offerings on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.
NRSVACE
He sacrificed and made offerings on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.
NRSVCE
He sacrificed and made offerings on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.
NRSVUE
He sacrificed and made offerings on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.
OJB
And he sacrificed and burnt ketoret in the [idolatrous] high places, and on the geva’ot, and under every spreading tree.
RGT
Also, he offered and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.
RSV
And he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.
RSVCE
And he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.
TLV
He offered sacrifices and burned incense on the high places, on the hills, and under every leafy tree.
VOICE
He also offered sacrifices and burned incense at the high places, on hills, and beneath every green tree.
WEB
He sacrificed and burned incense in the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.
WYC
And he offered sacrifices, and burnt incense in (the) high places, and in (the) hills, and under each tree full of boughs. (And he offered sacrifices, and burned incense at the hill shrines, and on the hills, and under each tree full of boughs.)
YLT
and he sacrificeth and maketh perfume in high places, and on the heights, and under every green tree.
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