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23 They also built for themselves (A)high places and sacred (B)pillars and [a](C)Asherim on every high hill and (D)beneath every green tree.

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  1. 1 Kings 14:23 Wooden symbols of a female deity

He also (A)sacrificed and burned incense on the high places and on the hills and under every green tree.

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Who inflame yourselves among the [a](A)oaks,
(B)Under every green tree,
Who (C)slaughter the children in the [b]ravines,
Under the clefts of the cliffs?
Among the [c](D)smooth stones of the [d]ravine
Is your portion, [e]they are your lot;
Even to them you have (E)poured out a drink offering;
You have made a grain offering.
Shall I [f](F)relent concerning these things?
Upon a mountain (G)lofty and lifted up
You have (H)made your bed.
You also went up there to offer sacrifice.

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  1. Isaiah 57:5 Or terebinths
  2. Isaiah 57:5 Or wadis
  3. Isaiah 57:6 Symbols of fertility gods
  4. Isaiah 57:6 Or wadi
  5. Isaiah 57:6 Lit they, they
  6. Isaiah 57:6 Or regret, be comforted; cf. 40:1

28 Indeed, I (A)brought them into the land which I swore to give to them, and they saw every (B)high hill and every leafy tree, and they offered there their sacrifices, and there they gave the provocation of their offering. There also they made their soothing aroma, and there they poured out their drink offerings.

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13 They offer sacrifices on the (A)tops of the mountains
And [a](B)burn incense on the hills,
(C)Under oak, poplar, and terebinth
Because their shade is good.
Therefore your daughters play the harlot,
And your [b]brides commit adultery.

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  1. Hosea 4:13 Or offer sacrifices
  2. Hosea 4:13 Or daughters-in-law