Verse 5

You burn with lust among the oaks, under every green tree; you slaughter children in the valleys, under crags of the cliffs.

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  • 2 Kgs 16:3-4 : 3 He followed the ways of the kings of Israel, and even sacrificed his son in the fire, imitating the detestable practices of the nations the Lord had driven out before the Israelites. 4 He offered sacrifices and burned incense on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.
  • Ezek 16:20 : 20 You even took the sons and daughters you bore to me and sacrificed them to the idols as food. Was your prostitution not enough?
  • Isa 1:29 : 29 You will be ashamed because of the terebinths that you desired, and you will blush because of the gardens you have chosen.
  • 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 7:31 : 31 They have built the high places of Topheth in the Valley of Ben Hinnom to burn their sons and daughters in the fire—something I did not command, nor did it enter my mind.
  • 2 Kgs 23:10 : 10 He defiled Topheth, which is in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, so no one could make his son or daughter pass through the fire to Molech.
  • Lev 18:21 : 21 Do not give any of your children to be sacrificed to Molech, for you must not profane the name of your God. I am the LORD.
  • Lev 20:2-5 : 2 Say to the Israelites, 'Any man from the Israelites or from the foreigners residing in Israel who gives any of his children to Molech shall surely be put to death. The people of the land shall stone him with stones. 3 I will set my face against that man and cut him off from among his people because he has given his children to Molech, defiling my sanctuary and profaning my holy name. 4 But if the people of the land deliberately close their eyes to that man when he gives his children to Molech, and they fail to put him to death, 5 then I will set my face against that man and his family, and I will cut off from their people both him and all who follow him in prostituting themselves to Molech.
  • Num 25:1-2 : 1 While Israel was staying in Shittim, the people began to commit sexual immorality with the women of Moab. 2 The women invited the people to the sacrifices of their gods, and the people ate and bowed down to their gods.
  • Num 25:6 : 6 Then an Israelite man brought a Midianite woman into his family, in the sight of Moses and the whole assembly of Israel, while they were weeping at the entrance to the tent of meeting.
  • 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.
  • 1 Kgs 14:23 : 23 They also built for themselves high places, sacred stones, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every spreading tree.
  • 2 Chr 28:3 : 3 He burned sacrifices in the Valley of Ben-Hinnom and sacrificed his sons in the fire, following the detestable practices of the nations that the LORD had driven out before the Israelites.
  • Ps 106:37-38 : 37 They sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons. 38 They shed innocent blood, the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan, and the land was polluted with blood.
  • 2 Kgs 17:10 : 10 They set up for themselves sacred pillars and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every leafy tree.
  • Ezek 20:26 : 26 I defiled them through their own gifts, by making them cause all their firstborn to pass through the fire, in order to devastate them and make them know that I am the LORD.
  • Ezek 20:31 : 31 When you offer your gifts and make your children pass through the fire, you defile yourselves with all your idols to this day. Shall I let you inquire of me, house of Israel? As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign LORD, I will not let you inquire of me.
  • Hos 4:11-13 : 11 Fornication, wine, and new wine take away the heart and understanding. 12 My people consult their wooden idols, and their staffs provide guidance for them. A spirit of prostitution has led them astray; they have been unfaithful under their God. 13 They sacrifice on the mountaintops and burn offerings on the hills, under oaks, poplars, and terebinths, where the shade is pleasant. Therefore your daughters turn to prostitution and your daughters-in-law to adultery.
  • Hos 7:4-7 : 4 They are all adulterers, burning like an oven heated by the baker, who pauses from stirring the dough until it is leavened. 5 On the day of our king, the princes became inflamed with wine, and the king stretched out his hand to mockers. 6 Their hearts are like an oven as they plot; all night their anger smolders, in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire. 7 All of them are hot like an oven; they devour their rulers. All their kings fall, and none call on me.
  • Amos 2:7-8 : 7 'They trample on the dust of the earth on the heads of the poor and obstruct the way of the afflicted. A man and his father go to the same girl, so that they profane My holy name.' 8 'They stretch out beside every altar on garments taken in pledge, and in the house of their gods they drink wine taken as fines.'
  • Rev 17:1-5 : 1 Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and spoke with me, saying, 'Come, I will show you the judgment of the great prostitute who sits on many waters.' 2 With her, the kings of the earth committed sexual immorality, and the inhabitants of the earth were made drunk with the wine of her immorality. 3 Then he carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness. There I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was full of blasphemous names and had seven heads and ten horns. 4 The woman was dressed in purple and scarlet, adorned with gold, precious stones, and pearls. She held in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of her immorality. 5 On her forehead was written a name: 'Mystery, Babylon the Great, the Mother of Prostitutes and of the Abominations of the Earth.'
  • Rev 18:3 : 3 For all the nations have drunk the wine of the passion of her sexual immorality, the kings of the earth committed immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth have grown rich from the abundance of her luxurious living.
  • Jer 17:2 : 2 Even their children remember their altars and their Asherah poles beside the green trees on the high hills.
  • Jer 32:35 : 35 They built high places for Baal in the Valley of Hinnom’s Son to sacrifice their sons and daughters to Molech, something I never commanded nor even considered in My heart. They committed this detestable act to make Judah sin.
  • Jer 50:38 : 38 A drought is upon her waters; they will dry up. For it is a land of idols, and they go mad over terrifying images.
  • Jer 51:7 : 7 Babylon was a golden cup in the hand of the Lord, intoxicating the whole earth. The nations drank her wine; therefore, they have gone mad.
  • Ezek 6:13 : 13 And you will know that I am the LORD, when their slain are among their idols, around their altars, on every high hill, on all the tops of the mountains, under every leafy tree, and under every thick oak—the places where they offered fragrant incense to all their idols.
  • Jer 3:6 : 6 During the reign of King Josiah, the LORD said to me, "Have you seen what faithless Israel has done? She has gone up on every high hill and under every spreading tree and has prostituted herself there."
  • Exod 32:6 : 6 The next day the people rose early, offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings. They sat down to eat and drink and got up to engage in revelry.