²³ For they also built for themselves high places, pillars, and sacred poles^[a] on every high hill and under every green tree;^(A)

² “You must demolish completely all the places where the nations whom you are about to dispossess served their gods, on the mountain heights, on the hills, and under every leafy tree.

²⁴ you built yourself a platform and made yourself a lofty place in every square;^{(A) 25} at the head of every street you built your lofty place and prostituted your beauty, offering yourself^[a] to every passer-by and multiplying your prostitution.^(B)

⁹ The people of Israel did^[a] things that were not right against the Lord their God. They built for themselves high places at all their towns, from watchtower to fortified city;^{(A) 10} they set up for themselves pillars and sacred poles^[b] on every high hill and under every green tree;^(B)

²⁸ For when I had brought them into the land that I swore to give them, then wherever they saw any high hill or any leafy tree, there they offered their sacrifices and presented the provocation of their offering; there they sent up their pleasing odors, and there they poured out their drink offerings.^{(A) 29} (I said to them, “What is the high place to which you go? So it is called Bamah^[a] to this day.”)

² while their children remember their altars and their sacred poles^[a] beside every green tree and on the high hills,