Jeremiah 17:2

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

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  • 2 Chr 24:18 : 18 They abandoned the house of the Lord, the God of their ancestors, and started worshiping the Asherah poles and idols. As a result, God's wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem because of their guilt.
  • 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 7:18 : 18 The children gather wood, the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead dough to make cakes for the Queen of Heaven. They pour out drink offerings to other gods, provoking me to anger.
  • 2 Chr 33:3 : 3 He rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had torn down, set up altars to the Baals, made Asherah poles, and worshipped all the stars of the sky and served them.
  • 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.
  • Isa 17:8 : 8 They will not look to the altars, the work of their hands, nor will they regard what their fingers have made, neither the Asherim nor the incense altars.
  • Judg 3:7 : 7 The Israelites did evil in the sight of the Lord. They forgot the Lord their God and served the Baals and the Asherahs.
  • 2 Chr 33:19 : 19 His prayer and how God was moved by his plea, all his sins and unfaithfulness, the sites where he built high places and set up Asherah poles and carved images before he humbled himself—all these are written in the records of the seers.
  • Ps 78:58 : 58 They angered Him with their high places and provoked His jealousy with their carved images.
  • Ezek 20:28 : 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.
  • Hos 4:13-14 : 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. 14 I will not punish your daughters when they commit fornication, nor your daughters-in-law when they commit adultery. For the men themselves go aside with harlots and sacrifice with temple prostitutes, and a people without understanding will come to ruin.

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  • 2 Kgs 17:8-12
    5 verses
    85%

    8 They followed the practices of the nations whom the Lord had driven out before the Israelites, as well as the practices of the kings of Israel that they themselves had introduced.

    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.

    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.'

  • 1 Kgs 14:22-23
    2 verses
    83%

    22 Judah did evil in the eyes of the LORD. By the sins they committed, they aroused His jealous anger more than their ancestors had done.

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

  • Jer 17:1
    81%

    1 The sin of Judah is written with an iron pen, engraved with a diamond point, on the tablets of their hearts and on the horns of their altars.

  • Isa 57:5
    80%

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

  • Hos 4:13
    76%

    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.

  • Jer 17:3
    76%

    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.

  • Deut 12:2-3
    2 verses
    75%

    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.

    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.

  • 2 Chr 24:18
    75%

    18 They abandoned the house of the Lord, the God of their ancestors, and started worshiping the Asherah poles and idols. As a result, God's wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem because of their guilt.

  • Isa 27:9
    75%

    9 By this, the guilt of Jacob will be atoned for, and this will be the full fruit of the removal of his sin: when he makes all the altar stones like crushed chalk stones, and no Asherah poles or incense altars will stand.

  • Isa 17:8-9
    2 verses
    74%

    8 They will not look to the altars, the work of their hands, nor will they regard what their fingers have made, neither the Asherim nor the incense altars.

    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.

  • Judg 3:7
    74%

    7 The Israelites did evil in the sight of the Lord. They forgot the Lord their God and served the Baals and the Asherahs.

  • 2 Kgs 17:16-17
    2 verses
    74%

    16 They abandoned all the commandments of the Lord their God. They made for themselves two cast idols in the form of calves, made an Asherah pole, worshiped all the host of heaven, and served Baal.

    17 They sacrificed their sons and daughters in the fire, practiced divination and sorcery, and sold themselves to do what was evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking Him to anger.

  • Jer 3:6
    74%

    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."

  • 2 Chr 28:3-4
    2 verses
    74%

    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.

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

  • 2 Kgs 17:41
    74%

    41 So these nations feared the Lord, but they also served their carved images. Their children and grandchildren continued to do as their fathers did, even to this day.

  • 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.

  • Isa 2:14
    73%

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

  • Exod 34:13
    73%

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

  • Ezek 20:28
    72%

    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.

  • Jer 5:7
    72%

    7 How can I pardon you? Your children have forsaken Me and sworn by false gods. I satisfied them, but they committed adultery and gathered at the houses of prostitutes.

  • Ezek 23:37
    72%

    37 For they have committed adultery and blood is on their hands. They committed adultery with their idols; they even sacrificed their children, whom they bore to me, passing them through the fire as food for their idols.

  • Deut 29:17
    72%

    17 Make sure there is no man or woman, family, or tribe among you whose heart turns away today from the LORD our God to go and serve the gods of these nations. Make sure there is no root among you that produces poisonous and bitter fruit.

  • Jer 11:13
    72%

    13 For your gods, Judah, are as numerous as your cities; and the altars you have set up to the shameful thing, altars to burn incense to Baal, are as many as the streets of Jerusalem.

  • Jer 3:21
    72%

    21 A voice is heard on the barren heights: the weeping and pleading of the people of Israel, because they have perverted their ways and have forgotten the LORD their God.

  • Deut 16:21
    72%

    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.

  • Hos 10:2
    72%

    2 Their hearts are divided; now they must bear their guilt. He will tear down their altars and destroy their sacred pillars.

  • Ezek 23:39
    72%

    39 When they slaughtered their children as sacrifices to their idols, they came to my sanctuary on the same day to desecrate it. See, this is what they have done in my house.

  • 2 Kgs 16:4
    72%

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

  • Jer 1:16
    72%

    16 I will pronounce My judgments against them for all their evil in forsaking Me, burning incense to other gods, and worshiping the works of their own hands.

  • Hos 10:8
    72%

    8 The high places of wickedness will be destroyed—it is the sin of Israel. Thorns and thistles will grow over their altars. Then they will say to the mountains, 'Cover us!' and to the hills, 'Fall on us!

  • Jer 19:4
    72%

    4 For they have abandoned Me and made this place foreign. They have burned incense here to other gods—gods that neither they, their ancestors, nor the kings of Judah have known. And they have filled this place with the blood of the innocent.

  • 2 Kgs 23:15
    71%

    15 Even the altar at Bethel, the high place that Jeroboam son of Nebat had made, the one who caused Israel to sin—even that altar and the high place he tore down. He burned the high place, crushed it to dust, and burned the Asherah pole that was there.

  • Jer 7:30
    71%

    30 For the people of Judah have done evil in my sight, declares the LORD. They have set up their detestable idols in the house that bears my name to defile it.

  • Hos 7:2
    71%

    2 But they fail to consider in their hearts that I remember all their evil. Now their deeds surround them; they are before my face.

  • Hos 8:11
    71%

    11 Ephraim has built many altars for sin; they have become altars for sinning.

  • Deut 7:5
    71%

    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 4:25
    71%

    25 When you have children and grandchildren and have grown old in the land, and if you act corruptly and make a carved image in the form of anything, doing what is evil in the sight of the LORD your God to provoke Him to anger,

  • Jer 2:20
    71%

    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.

  • Isa 2:8
    71%

    8 Their land is filled with idols. They bow down to the work of their own hands, to what their fingers have made.

  • Hos 13:2
    71%

    2 Now they continue to sin and make for themselves cast images, idols skillfully crafted from their silver, all of it the work of artisans. They say about them, 'Those who sacrifice kiss the calves!'