2 Kings 16:4 Cross References - LEB

⁴ He sacrificed and offered incense on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.

² You must completely demolish all of the places there where they served their gods, that is, the nations whom you are about to dispossess, on the high mountains, and on the hills and under each leafy green tree.*

²³ They also built for themselves high places and stone pillars and sacred poles on every high hill and under every green tree.

⁴ Only the high places were not removed; the people were still sacrificing and offering incense on the high places.

⁵ who burn with lust among the oaks, under every leafy tree, who slaughter children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks? ⁶ Your portion is among the smooth stones of the valley; they, they are your lot; indeed, to them you have poured out a drink offering, you have brought a food offering.
Shall I relent concerning these things? ⁷ You have set your bed upon a high and lofty mountain; indeed, you went up there to slaughter sacrifice.

⁴ _⌊who sit_⌋* in graves and spend the night in _⌊secret places_⌋,* _⌊who eat_⌋* the flesh of swine with* a fragment* of impurity in their vessels,

¹⁷ Those who sanctify themselves and those who cleanse themselves _⌊to go into_⌋* the gardens after the one in the middle, eating the flesh of swine and detestable things* and rodents* together
shall come to an end!" _⌊declares_⌋* Yahweh.

² As the remembering of their children, so is the remembering of their altars and their poles of Asherah worship beside the leafy trees* on the high hills.

²⁸ And I brought them to the land that _⌊I swore_⌋* to give* to them, and they saw every high hill and every leafy tree, and they offered their sacrifices, and they presented there the provocation of their offering, and they gave there their fragrant incense offering, and they poured out their libations there. ²⁹ And I said to them, 'What is the high place* to which you are going?' And _⌊it is called_⌋* Bamah until this day.