Jeremiah 17:2

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

whilst their children remember their altars and their Asherim by the green trees upon the high hills.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּזְכֹּ֤ר בְּנֵיהֶם֙ מִזְבְּחוֹתָ֔ם וַאֲשֵׁרֵיהֶ֖ם עַל־עֵ֣ץ רַֽעֲנָ֑ן עַ֖ל גְּבָע֥וֹת הַגְּבֹהֽוֹת׃

Transliteration

While-kizkōr bĕnêhem mizbĕḥôtām and-ʾăšērêhem upon-ʿēṣ raʿănān upon gĕbāʿôt haggĕbōhôt

Grammar Details

*kizkōr*: infinitive construct with preposition - as/when remembering
*bĕnêhem*: masculine plural noun + 3rd person masculine plural suffix - their children
*mizbĕḥôtām*: masculine plural noun + 3rd person masculine plural suffix - their altars
*ʾăšērêhem*: feminine plural noun + 3rd person masculine plural suffix - their Asherim/sacred poles
*ʿēṣ*: noun, masculine singular - tree
*raʿănān*: adjective, masculine singular - luxuriant/green/leafy
*gĕbāʿôt*: feminine plural noun - hills
*haggĕbōhôt*: definite article + feminine plural adjective - the high

Word Meanings

*kizkōr*: remembering/recalling
*ʾăšērêhem*: Asherim/Asherah poles/sacred trees
*raʿănān*: green/luxuriant/leafy/flourishing

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Referenced Verses

2 Chr 24:18 : 18 And they forsook the house of Jehovah, the God of their fathers, and served the Asherim and the idols: and wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem for this their guiltiness.
Jer 2:20 : 20 For of old time I have broken thy yoke, and burst thy bonds; and thou saidst, I will not serve; for upon every high hill and under every green tree thou didst bow thyself, playing the harlot.
Jer 7:18 : 18 The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead the dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink-offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.
2 Chr 33:3 : 3 For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down; and he reared up altars for the Baalim, and made Asheroth, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.
Isa 1:29 : 29 For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired, and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen.
Isa 17:8 : 8 And they shall not look to the altars, the work of their hands; neither shall they have respect to that which their fingers have made, either the Asherim, or the sun-images.
Judg 3:7 : 7 And the children of Israel did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, and forgat Jehovah their God, and served the Baalim and the Asheroth.
2 Chr 33:19 : 19 His prayer also, and how [God] was entreated of him, and all his sin and his trespass, and the places wherein he built high places, and set up the Asherim and the graven images, before he humbled himself: behold, they are written in the history of Hozai.
Ps 78:58 : 58 For they provoked him to anger with their high places, And moved him to jealousy with their graven images.
Ezek 20:28 : 28 For when I had brought them into the land, which I sware to give unto them, then they saw every high hill, and every thick tree, and they offered there their sacrifices, and there they presented the provocation of their offering; there also they made their sweet savor, and they poured out there their drink-offerings.
Hos 4:13-14 : 13 They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and terebinths, because the shadow thereof is good: therefore your daughters play the harlot, and your brides commit adultery. 14 I will not punish your daughters when they play the harlot, nor your brides when they commit adultery; for [the men] themselves go apart with harlots, and they sacrifice with the prostitutes; and the people that doth not understand shall be overthrown.

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2 Kgs 17:8-12
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8and walked in the statutes of the nations, whom Jehovah cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they made.
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22And Judah did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they committed, above all that their fathers had done.
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2Ye shall surely destroy all the places wherein the nations that ye shall dispossess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree:
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8And they shall not look to the altars, the work of their hands; neither shall they have respect to that which their fingers have made, either the Asherim, or the sun-images.
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7And the children of Israel did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, and forgat Jehovah their God, and served the Baalim and the Asheroth.
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Jer 19:4
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