² Destroy completely all the places on the high mountains,^(A) on the hills and under every spreading tree,^(B) where the nations you are dispossessing worship their gods.

⁹ The Israelites secretly did things against the Lord their God that were not right. From watchtower to fortified city^(A) they built themselves high places in all their towns.

¹⁰ They set up sacred stones^(A) and Asherah poles^(B) on every high hill and under every spreading tree.^(C)

²⁴ you built a mound for yourself and made a lofty shrine^(A) in every public square.^(B)

²⁵ At every street corner^(A) you built your lofty shrines and degraded your beauty, spreading your legs with increasing promiscuity to anyone who passed by.^(B)