Deuteronomy 12:2

Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

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.

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Other Translations

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    Ye shall utterly stroy all the places, wherein the nations which ye shall possess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and unr every green tree:

  • KJV1611 – Modern English

    You shall completely destroy all the places where the nations you are dispossessing served their gods, on the high mountains, on the hills, and under every green tree:

  • King James Version 1611 (Original)

    Ye shall utterly destroy all the places, wherein the nations which ye shall possess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree:

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    Ye shall surely{H6} destroy{H6} all the places{H4725} wherein the nations{H1471} that{H834} ye shall dispossess{H3423} served{H5647} their gods,{H430} upon the high{H7311} mountains,{H2022} and upon the hills,{H1389} and under every green{H7488} tree:{H6086}

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    Ye shall utterly{H6}{(H8763)} destroy{H6}{(H8762)} all the places{H4725}, wherein the nations{H1471} which{H834} ye shall possess{H3423}{(H8802)} served{H5647}{(H8804)} their gods{H430}, upon the high{H7311}{(H8802)} mountains{H2022}, and upon the hills{H1389}, and under every green{H7488} tree{H6086}:

  • Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

    Se that ye destroye all places where the nacyons which ye conquere serue their goddes, vppon hye mountaynes and on hye hilles and vnder euery grene tree.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    Destroye all the places, wherin ye Heithen (who ye shal conquere) haue serued their goddes, whether it be vpo hye mountaynes, vpo hilles, or amonge grene trees.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    Yee shall vtterly destroy all the places wherein the nations which ye shal possesse, serued their gods vpon the hie mountaines and vpon the hilles, and vnder euery greene tree.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    Ye shall destroy all places wherin the nations whiche ye shall possesse serued their gods, vpon hye mountaynes, on hylles, and vnder euery greene tree.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    Ye shall utterly destroy all the places, wherein the nations which ye shall possess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree:

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    You shall surely destroy all the places in which the nations that you shall dispossess served their gods, on the high mountains, and on the hills, and under every green tree:

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    ye do utterly destroy all the places where the nations which ye are dispossessing served their gods, on the high mountains, and on the heights, and under every green tree;

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    Ye 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:

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    Ye 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:

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    You are to give up to the curse all those places where the nations, whom you are driving out, gave worship to their gods, on the high mountains and the hills and under every green tree:

  • World English Bible (2000)

    You shall surely destroy all the places in which the nations that you shall dispossess served their gods, on the high mountains, and on the hills, and under every green tree:

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    You must by all means destroy all the places where the nations you are about to dispossess worship their gods– on the high mountains and hills and under every leafy tree.

Referenced Verses

  • 2 Kgs 16:4 : 4 He offered sacrifices and burned incense on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.
  • 2 Kgs 17:10-11 : 10 They set up for themselves sacred pillars and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every leafy tree. 11 There, on all the high places, they burned incense as the nations whom the Lord had driven out before them had done. They did wicked things that provoked the Lord to anger.
  • Deut 7:5 : 5 Instead, this is what you must do to them: Tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, chop down their Asherah poles, and burn their carved images with fire.
  • Deut 7:25-26 : 25 You must burn the carved images of their gods in the fire. Do not covet the silver or gold on them, and do not take it for yourself, or you will be ensnared by it. For it is detestable to the LORD your God. 26 Do not bring any detestable thing into your house, or you will be set apart for destruction just like it. Utterly detest and abhor it, for it is set apart for destruction.
  • 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."
  • 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.)
  • Hos 4:13 : 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.
  • Judg 2:2 : 2 But you must not make a covenant with the people who live in this land. Instead, you are to break down their altars. Yet you have not obeyed me. What is this that you have done?'
  • 2 Kgs 23:13 : 13 The king also defiled the high places east of Jerusalem, on the south of the Mount of Corruption, which Solomon, the king of Israel, had built for Ashtoreth, the detestable idol of the Sidonians, for Chemosh, the detestable idol of Moab, and for Milcom, the abomination of the Ammonites.
  • Exod 23:24 : 24 Do not bow down to their gods or worship them or follow their practices. Instead, you must demolish them completely and shatter their sacred pillars.
  • Exod 34:12-17 : 12 Be careful not to make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going, or they will become a snare in your midst. 13 Instead, you must destroy their altars, smash their sacred pillars, and cut down their Asherah poles. 14 For you must not worship any other god, because the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God. 15 Be careful not to make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, for when they prostitute themselves to their gods and sacrifice to them, they will invite you, and you will eat from their sacrifices. 16 And when you take some of their daughters as wives for your sons, their daughters will lead your sons to prostitute themselves to their gods. 17 Do not make any molten gods for yourselves.
  • Num 22:41 : 41 The next morning, Balak took Balaam and brought him up to Bamoth-baal, from where he could see the outskirts of the people.
  • Num 33:51-52 : 51 'Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When you cross the Jordan into the land of Canaan, 52 you must drive out all the inhabitants of the land before you, destroy all their stone images and cast idols, and demolish all their high places.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Deut 12:3-4
    2 verses
    88%

    3 Tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, burn their Asherah poles with fire, cut down their carved idols, and obliterate the names of their gods from those places.

    4 Do not worship the Lord your God in the same way that they worship their gods.

  • Num 33:52
    83%

    52 you must drive out all the inhabitants of the land before you, destroy all their stone images and cast idols, and demolish all their high places.

  • Exod 34:13
    81%

    13 Instead, you must destroy their altars, smash their sacred pillars, and cut down their Asherah poles.

  • Deut 7:5
    79%

    5 Instead, this is what you must do to them: Tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, chop down their Asherah poles, and burn their carved images with fire.

  • 2 Kgs 17:10-12
    3 verses
    77%

    10 They set up for themselves sacred pillars and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every leafy tree.

    11 There, on all the high places, they burned incense as the nations whom the Lord had driven out before them had done. They did wicked things that provoked the Lord to anger.

    12 They served idols, about which the Lord had said to them, 'You shall not do this thing.'

  • Deut 20:15-18
    4 verses
    77%

    15 This is what you shall do to all the cities that are very far from you, which are not part of the cities of these nations.

    16 But in the cities of these peoples that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, do not leave alive anything that breathes.

    17 Completely destroy them—the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites—as the LORD your God has commanded you.

    18 This is so they do not teach you to follow all the detestable practices they have done for their gods, causing you to sin against the LORD your God.

  • 1 Kgs 14:23
    76%

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

  • Mic 5:14
    76%

    14 In anger and wrath, I will execute vengeance on the nations that have not obeyed.

  • Deut 7:1-2
    2 verses
    76%

    1 When the LORD your God brings you into the land that you are entering to take possession of, and He drives out many nations before you—the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites—seven nations more numerous and stronger than you,

    2 and when the LORD your God delivers them over to you and you defeat them, you must devote them to complete destruction. Do not make a covenant with them or show them any mercy.

  • Deut 13:15-16
    2 verses
    75%

    15 then you must inquire, investigate, and interrogate thoroughly. If the report is true and confirmed that such a detestable act has been done among you,

    16 you must surely strike down the inhabitants of that city with the sword, devoting it and all that is in it, including its livestock, to complete destruction.

  • Exod 23:24
    75%

    24 Do not bow down to their gods or worship them or follow their practices. Instead, you must demolish them completely and shatter their sacred pillars.

  • Deut 12:29-31
    3 verses
    75%

    29 When the Lord your God cuts off the nations before you, the nations you are entering to dispossess, and you drive them out and live in their land,

    30 be careful that you are not ensnared by following them after they have been destroyed before you. Do not inquire about their gods, asking, 'How did these nations serve their gods? I will do likewise.'

    31 You must not worship the Lord your God in their way, because they practice for their gods every abomination that the Lord hates. They even burn their sons and daughters in the fire as sacrifices to their gods.

  • Jer 17:2-3
    2 verses
    75%

    2 Even their children remember their altars and their Asherah poles beside the green trees on the high hills.

    3 O my mountain in the field, I will give away your wealth and all your treasures as plunder, along with your high places, because of the sin committed throughout your borders.

  • 2 Chr 31:1
    75%

    1 When all this had been completed, all the Israelites who were present went out to the towns of Judah and broke the sacred pillars, cut down the Asherah poles, and demolished the high places and the altars throughout Judah, Benjamin, Ephraim, and Manasseh, until they had destroyed them completely. Then all the Israelites returned to their own cities, each to their own property.

  • Deut 12:1
    75%

    1 These are the statutes and ordinances that you must carefully observe in the land that the Lord, the God of your ancestors, has given you to possess, for as long as you live on the earth.

  • Judg 2:2
    74%

    2 But you must not make a covenant with the people who live in this land. Instead, you are to break down their altars. Yet you have not obeyed me. What is this that you have done?'

  • Amos 2:9
    74%

    9 'Yet it was I who destroyed the Amorites before them, whose height was like the cedars and whose strength was like the oaks. I destroyed their fruit above and their roots below.'

  • 2 Kgs 3:19
    74%

    19 You will destroy every fortified city and every major town, cut down every good tree, stop up all the springs, and ruin every good field with stones.

  • Deut 16:21
    74%

    21 You shall not plant for yourself an Asherah pole of any tree beside the altar of the Lord your God that you will set up for yourself.

  • Ezek 6:3
    73%

    3 Say, 'Mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD: This is what the Lord GOD says to the mountains, the hills, the ravines, and the valleys: I am about to bring a sword against you, and I will destroy your high places.

  • Deut 20:20
    73%

    20 However, you may cut down only the trees that you know are not fruit-bearing. Use them to build siege works against the city that is at war with you, until it falls.

  • Isa 57:5
    73%

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

  • Isa 2:13-14
    2 verses
    73%

    13 It will come against all the cedars of Lebanon, tall and lofty, and against all the oaks of Bashan.

    14 It will come against all the high mountains and against all the lofty hills.

  • Deut 7:24-25
    2 verses
    73%

    24 He will hand their kings over to you, and you will wipe out their names from under the heavens. No one will be able to stand against you until you have destroyed them.

    25 You must burn the carved images of their gods in the fire. Do not covet the silver or gold on them, and do not take it for yourself, or you will be ensnared by it. For it is detestable to the LORD your God.

  • Ezek 6:13
    73%

    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.

  • Josh 11:12
    73%

    12 Joshua captured all the cities of these kings and their kings as well. He struck them down with the sword and completely destroyed them, as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded.

  • 2 Chr 28:4
    72%

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

  • Deut 31:4
    72%

    4 And the LORD will do to them as he did to Sihon and Og, the kings of the Amorites, and to their land, whom he destroyed.

  • Josh 10:40
    72%

    40 So Joshua conquered the whole country—the hill country, the Negev, the lowland, and the slopes—along with all their kings. He left no survivors but devoted every living thing to destruction, just as the LORD, the God of Israel, had commanded.

  • Deut 12:14
    72%

    14 But offer them only at the place the Lord chooses in one of your tribal territories. There you are to offer your burnt offerings and perform everything I command you.

  • 2 Kgs 23:14
    72%

    14 He smashed the sacred pillars to pieces, cut down the Asherah poles, and filled their places with human bones.

  • Deut 19:1
    71%

    1 When the LORD your God eliminates the nations whose land He is giving you, and you take possession of them and settle in their cities and houses,

  • Ezek 6:6
    71%

    6 Wherever you dwell, your cities will become ruins, and your high places will be desolate. Your altars will be demolished and abandoned, your idols broken and destroyed, your incense altars cut down, and your works wiped out.

  • Isa 17:9
    71%

    9 In that day, their strong cities will be like the forsaken places of the wooded heights and hilltops that were abandoned because of the Israelites, and there will be desolation.

  • Lev 26:30
    71%

    30 I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars, and heap your dead bodies on the lifeless forms of your idols, and my soul will reject you.

  • Deut 11:23
    71%

    23 then the LORD will drive out all these nations before you, and you will dispossess nations greater and stronger than you.

  • Josh 17:18
    71%

    18 but the hill country shall be yours. Though it is a forest, you can clear it, and its farthest limits shall be yours. You will drive out the Canaanites, even though they have iron chariots and are strong.