1 Kings 14:23
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23 For they also built for themselves (A)high places (B)and pillars and (C)Asherim on every high hill and (D)under every green tree,
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Deuteronomy 12:2
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2 (A)You shall surely destroy all the places where the nations whom you shall dispossess served their gods, (B)on the high mountains and on the hills and under every green tree.
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Isaiah 57:5
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5 you who burn with lust among (A)the oaks,[a]
under every green tree,
(B)who slaughter your children in the valleys,
under the clefts of the rocks?
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- Isaiah 57:5 Or among the terebinths
Ezekiel 16:24-25
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24 you built yourself (A)a vaulted chamber and made yourself a lofty place in every square. 25 At the head of every street (B)you built your lofty place and made (C)your beauty an abomination, (D)offering yourself[a] to any passerby and multiplying your whoring.
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- Ezekiel 16:25 Hebrew spreading your legs
2 Kings 17:9-10
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9 And the people of Israel did secretly against the Lord their God things that were not right. They built for themselves high places in all their towns, (A)from watchtower to fortified city. 10 They set up for themselves (B)pillars and Asherim on every high hill and under every green tree,
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Micah 5:14
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Ezekiel 20:28-29
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28 For when I had brought them into the land that (A)I swore to give them, then wherever they saw (B)any high hill or any leafy tree, there they offered their sacrifices and there they presented (C)the provocation of their offering; there they sent up their pleasing aromas, and there they poured out their drink offerings. 29 (I said to them, (D)‘What is the high place to which you go?’ So its name is called Bamah[a] to this day.)
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- Ezekiel 20:29 Bamah means high place
Jeremiah 17:2
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2 while (A)their children remember their altars and their (B)Asherim, (C)beside every green tree and on the high hills,
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Jeremiah 3:13
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13 (A)Only acknowledge your guilt,
that you rebelled against the Lord your God
and scattered your favors among foreigners under (B)every green tree,
and that you have not obeyed my voice,
declares the Lord.
Jeremiah 2:20
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20 “For long ago I (A)broke your yoke
and burst your bonds;
but you said, (B)‘I will not serve.’
Yes, (C)on every high hill
and under every green tree
you bowed down (D)like a whore.
2 Chronicles 28:4
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4 And he sacrificed and (A)made offerings on the high places and on the hills and under every green tree.
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2 Kings 21:3-7
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3 For he rebuilt the high places (A)that Hezekiah his father had destroyed, and he erected altars for Baal and made (B)an Asherah, (C)as Ahab king of Israel had done, (D)and worshiped all the host of heaven and served them. 4 (E)And he built altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, (F)“In Jerusalem will I put my name.” 5 And he built altars (G)for all the host of heaven in (H)the two courts of the house of the Lord. 6 (I)And he burned his son as an offering[a] and (J)used fortune-telling and (K)omens and dealt (L)with mediums and with necromancers. He did much evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger. 7 And the carved image of (M)Asherah that he had made he set in the house of which the Lord said to David and to Solomon his son, “In this house, (N)and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my name forever.
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- 2 Kings 21:6 Hebrew made his son pass through the fire
1 Kings 14:15
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15 the Lord will strike Israel as a reed is shaken in the water, and (A)root up Israel out of (B)this good land that he gave to their fathers and scatter them (C)beyond the Euphrates,[a] because they have made their (D)Asherim, provoking the Lord to anger.
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- 1 Kings 14:15 Hebrew the River
1 Kings 3:2
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2 (A)The people were sacrificing at the high places, however, because no house had yet been built for the name of the Lord.
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Deuteronomy 16:22
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22 And you shall not set up a pillar, which the Lord your God hates.
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Leviticus 26:1
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Blessings for Obedience
26 “You shall not make (A)idols for yourselves or erect an (B)image or (C)pillar, and you shall not set up a (D)figured stone in your land to bow down to it, for I am the Lord your God.
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