Jeremiah 17:2

Webster's Bible (1833)

while their children remember their altars and their Asherim by the green trees on the high hills.

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  • 2 Chr 24:18 : 18 They forsook the house of Yahweh, the God of their fathers, and served the Asherim and the idols: and wrath came on Judah and Jerusalem for this their guiltiness.
  • Jer 2:20 : 20 For of old time I have broken your yoke, and burst your bonds; and you said, I will not serve; for on every high hill and under every green tree you did bow yourself, playing the prostitute.
  • 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 the sky, and to pour out drink-offerings to 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 Baals, and made Asheroth, and worshiped all the host of the sky, and served them.
  • Isa 1:29 : 29 For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which you have desired, And you shall be confounded for the gardens that you have chosen.
  • Isa 17:8 : 8 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 The children of Israel did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and forgot Yahweh their God, and served the Baals 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 in which he built high places, and set up the Asherim and the engraved 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 engraved images.
  • Ezek 20:28 : 28 For when I had brought them into the land, which I swore to give to 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 on the tops of the mountains, And burn incense on the hills, under oaks and poplars and terebinths, Because its shade is good. Therefore your daughters play the prostitute, And your brides commit adultery. 14 I will not punish your daughters when they play the prostitute, Nor your brides when they commit adultery; Because the men consort with prostitutes, And they sacrifice with the shrine prostitutes; And the people that does not understand will come to ruin.

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  • 2 Kgs 17:8-12
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    85%

    8and walked in the statutes of the nations, whom Yahweh cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they made.

    9The children of Israel did secretly things that were not right against Yahweh their God: and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fortified city;

    10and they set them up pillars and Asherim on every high hill, and under every green tree;

    11and there they burnt incense in all the high places, as did the nations whom Yahweh carried away before them; and they worked wicked things to provoke Yahweh to anger;

    12and they served idols, of which Yahweh had said to them, You shall not do this thing.

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

    22Judah did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they committed, above all that their fathers had done.

    23For they also built them high places, and pillars, and Asherim, on every high hill, and under every green tree;

  • Jer 17:1
    81%

    1The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, [and] with the point of a diamond: it is engraved on the tablet of their heart, and on the horns of your altars;

  • Isa 57:5
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    5you who inflame yourselves among the oaks, under every green tree; who kill the children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks?

  • Hos 4:13
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    13They sacrifice on the tops of the mountains, And burn incense on the hills, under oaks and poplars and terebinths, Because its shade is good. Therefore your daughters play the prostitute, And your brides commit adultery.

  • Jer 17:3
    76%

    3My mountain in the field, I will give your substance and all your treasures for a spoil, [and] your high places, because of sin, throughout all your borders.

  • Deut 12:2-3
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    75%

    2You 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:

    3and you shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and burn their Asherim with fire; and you shall cut down the engraved images of their gods; and you shall destroy their name out of that place.

  • 2 Chr 24:18
    75%

    18They forsook the house of Yahweh, the God of their fathers, and served the Asherim and the idols: and wrath came on Judah and Jerusalem for this their guiltiness.

  • Isa 27:9
    75%

    9Therefore by this shall the iniquity of Jacob be forgiven, and this is all the fruit of taking away his sin: that he makes all the stones of the altar as chalk stones that are beaten in sunder, [so that] the Asherim and the sun-images shall rise no more.

  • Isa 17:8-9
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    74%

    8They 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.

    9In that day shall their strong cities be as the forsaken places in the wood and on the mountain top, which were forsaken from before the children of Israel; and it shall be a desolation.

  • Judg 3:7
    74%

    7The children of Israel did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and forgot Yahweh their God, and served the Baals and the Asheroth.

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

    16They forsook all the commandments of Yahweh their God, and made them molten images, even two calves, and made an Asherah, and worshiped all the host of the sky, and served Baal.

    17They caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, to provoke him to anger.

  • Jer 3:6
    74%

    6Moreover Yahweh said to me in the days of Josiah the king, Have you seen that which backsliding Israel has done? she is gone up on every high mountain and under every green tree, and there has played the prostitute.

  • 2 Chr 28:3-4
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    74%

    3Moreover he burnt incense in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and burnt his children in the fire, according to the abominations of the nations whom Yahweh cast out before the children of Israel.

    4He sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.

  • 2 Kgs 17:41
    74%

    41So these nations feared Yahweh, and served their engraved images; their children likewise, and their children's children, as did their fathers, so do they to this day.

  • Ezek 6:13
    73%

    13You shall know that I am Yahweh, when their slain men shall be among their idols round about their altars, on every high hill, on all the tops of the mountains, and under every green tree, and under every thick oak, the places where they offered sweet savor to all their idols.

  • Isa 2:14
    73%

    14For all the high mountains, For all the hills that are lifted up,

  • Exod 34:13
    73%

    13but you shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and you shall cut down their Asherim;

  • Ezek 20:28
    72%

    28For when I had brought them into the land, which I swore to give to 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.

  • Jer 5:7
    72%

    7How can I pardon you? your children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they committed adultery, and assembled themselves in troops at the prostitutes' houses.

  • Ezek 23:37
    72%

    37For they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands; and with their idols have they committed adultery; and they have also caused their sons, whom they bore to me, to pass through [the fire] to them to be devoured.

  • Deut 29:17
    72%

    17and you have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them);

  • Jer 11:13
    72%

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

  • Jer 3:21
    72%

    21A voice is heard on the bare heights, the weeping [and] the petitions of the children of Israel; because they have perverted their way, they have forgotten Yahweh their God.

  • Deut 16:21
    72%

    21You shall not plant you an Asherah of any kind of tree beside the altar of Yahweh your God, which you shall make you.

  • Hos 10:2
    72%

    2Their heart is divided. Now they will be found guilty. He will demolish their altars. He will destroy their sacred stones.

  • Ezek 23:39
    72%

    39For when they had slain their children to their idols, then they came the same day into my sanctuary to profane it; and, behold, thus have they done in the midst of my house.

  • 2 Kgs 16:4
    72%

    4He sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.

  • Jer 1:16
    72%

    16I will utter my judgments against them touching all their wickedness, in that they have forsaken me, and have burned incense to other gods, and worshiped the works of their own hands.

  • Hos 10:8
    72%

    8The high places also of Aven, the sin of Israel, will be destroyed. The thorn and the thistle will come up on their altars. They will tell the mountains, "Cover us!" and the hills, "Fall on us!"

  • Jer 19:4
    72%

    4Because they have forsaken me, and have estranged this place, and have burned incense in it to other gods, that they didn't know, they and their fathers and the kings of Judah; and have filled this place with the blood of innocents,

  • 2 Kgs 23:15
    71%

    15Moreover the altar that was at Bethel, and the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had made, even that altar and the high place he broke down; and he burned the high place and beat it to dust, and burned the Asherah.

  • Jer 7:30
    71%

    30For the children of Judah have done that which is evil in my sight, says Yahweh: they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to defile it.

  • Hos 7:2
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    2They don't consider in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness. Now their own deeds have engulfed them. They are before my face.

  • Hos 8:11
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    11Because Ephraim has multiplied altars for sinning, They became for him altars for sinning.

  • Deut 7:5
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    5But thus shall you deal with them: you shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and hew down their Asherim, and burn their engraved images with fire.

  • Deut 4:25
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    25When you shall father children, and children's children, and you shall have been long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make an engraved image in the form of anything, and shall do that which is evil in the sight of Yahweh your God, to provoke him to anger;

  • Jer 2:20
    71%

    20For of old time I have broken your yoke, and burst your bonds; and you said, I will not serve; for on every high hill and under every green tree you did bow yourself, playing the prostitute.

  • Isa 2:8
    71%

    8Their land also is full of idols. They worship the work of their own hands, That which their own fingers have made.

  • Hos 13:2
    71%

    2Now they sin more and more, And have made themselves molten images of their silver, Even idols according to their own understanding, All of them the work of the craftsmen. They say of them, "They offer human sacrifice and kiss the calves."