Verse 23

They also built for themselves high places, sacred stones, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every spreading tree.

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  • Deut 12:2 : 2 Completely destroy all the places where the nations you are dispossessing worshiped their gods—on the high mountains, on the hills, and under every green tree.
  • Isa 57:5 : 5 You burn with lust among the oaks, under every green tree; you slaughter children in the valleys, under crags of the cliffs.
  • 2 Kgs 17:9-9 : 9 The Israelites secretly did things against the Lord their God that were not right. They built high places in all their towns, from watchtower to fortified city. 10 They set up for themselves sacred pillars and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every leafy tree.
  • Ezek 16:24-25 : 24 You built yourselves a mound and made high places at every street corner. 25 At the head of every street, you built your high places. You degraded your beauty by spreading your legs to every passerby and multiplied your acts of prostitution.
  • Ezek 20:28-29 : 28 When I brought them into the land that I swore to give them, and they saw every high hill and every leafy tree, they offered their sacrifices there, provoked me with their offerings, placed their pleasing aromas, and poured out their drink offerings there. 29 I said to them: What is this high place to which you go? (It is called 'High Place' to this day.)
  • Mic 5:14 : 14 In anger and wrath, I will execute vengeance on the nations that have not obeyed.
  • 2 Kgs 21:3-7 : 3 He rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed, set up altars for Baal, and made an Asherah, as King Ahab of Israel had done. He bowed down to all the host of heaven and served them. 4 He built altars in the house of the LORD, about which the LORD had said, 'In Jerusalem I will put My name.' 5 He built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the LORD's house. 6 He sacrificed his own son by fire, practiced divination and omen reading, and consulted mediums and spiritists. He did much evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking Him to anger. 7 He placed the carved Asherah image he had made in the house about which the LORD had said to David and to Solomon his son: 'In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put My name forever.
  • 2 Chr 28:4 : 4 He offered sacrifices and burned incense on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.
  • Lev 26:1 : 1 Do not make idols for yourselves, or set up a carved image or a sacred pillar for yourselves, and do not place a figured stone in your land to bow down to it, for I am the LORD your God.
  • Jer 2:20 : 20 For long ago I broke your yoke and tore off your bonds, but you said, ‘I will not serve!’ Indeed, on every high hill and under every green tree you lay down as a prostitute.
  • Jer 3:13 : 13 Only acknowledge your guilt—that you have rebelled against the LORD your God, scattered your favors to strangers under every spreading tree, and have not obeyed my voice,' declares the LORD.
  • Jer 17:2 : 2 Even their children remember their altars and their Asherah poles beside the green trees on the high hills.
  • Deut 16:22 : 22 And you shall not set up for yourself a sacred pillar, which the Lord your God hates.
  • 1 Kgs 3:2 : 2 However, the people were still sacrificing on the high places because no house had yet been built for the name of the LORD.
  • 1 Kgs 14:15 : 15 The LORD will strike Israel as a reed sways in the water. He will uproot Israel from this good land that He gave to their ancestors and scatter them beyond the Euphrates River, because they made Asherah poles, angering the LORD.