Ezekiel 16:24
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24 that (A)you also built for yourself a shrine, and (B)made a [a]high place for yourself in every street.
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- Ezekiel 16:24 Place for pagan worship
Ezekiel 16:39
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39 I will also give you into their hand, and they shall throw down your shrines and break down (A)your [a]high places. (B)They shall also strip you of your clothes, take your beautiful jewelry, and leave you naked and bare.
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- Ezekiel 16:39 Places for pagan worship
Ezekiel 16:31
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Jerusalem’s Adultery
31 (A)“You erected your shrine at the head of every road, and built your [a]high place in every street. Yet you were not like a harlot, because you scorned (B)payment.
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- Ezekiel 16:31 Place for pagan worship
Jeremiah 2:20
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20 “For of old I have (A)broken your yoke and burst your bonds;
And (B)you said, ‘I will not [a]transgress,’
When (C)on every high hill and under every green tree
You lay down, (D)playing the harlot.
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- Jeremiah 2:20 Kt. serve
Isaiah 57:7
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7 “On(A) a lofty and high mountain
You have set (B)your bed;
Even there you went up
To offer sacrifice.
Psalm 78:58
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58 (A)For they provoked Him to anger with their (B)high places,
And moved Him to jealousy with their carved images.
Ezekiel 20:28-29
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28 When I brought them into the land concerning which I had raised My hand in an oath to give them, and (A)they saw all the high hills and all the thick trees, there they offered their sacrifices and provoked Me with their offerings. There they also sent up their (B)sweet aroma and poured out their drink offerings. 29 Then I said to them, ‘What is this [a]high place to which you go?’ So its name is called [b]Bamah to this day.” ’
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- Ezekiel 20:29 Place for pagan worship
- Ezekiel 20:29 Lit. High Place
Jeremiah 3:2
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2 “Lift up your eyes to (A)the desolate heights and see:
Where have you not [a]lain with men?
(B)By the road you have sat for them
Like an Arabian in the wilderness;
(C)And you have polluted the land
With your harlotries and your wickedness.
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- Jeremiah 3:2 Kt. been violated
Jeremiah 17:3
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3 O My mountain in the field,
I will give as plunder your wealth, all your treasures,
And your high places of sin within all your borders.
Isaiah 57:5
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5 Inflaming yourselves with gods (A)under every green tree,
(B)Slaying the children in the valleys,
Under the clefts of the rocks?
2 Chronicles 33:3-7
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3 For he rebuilt the [a]high places which Hezekiah his father had (A)broken down; he raised up altars for the Baals, and (B)made wooden images; and he worshiped (C)all [b]the host of heaven and served them. 4 He also built altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, (D)“In Jerusalem shall My name be forever.” 5 And he built altars for all the host of heaven (E)in the two courts of the house of the Lord. 6 (F)Also he caused his sons to pass through the fire in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom; he practiced (G)soothsaying, used witchcraft and sorcery, and (H)consulted mediums and spiritists. He did much evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke Him to anger. 7 (I)He even set a carved image, the idol which he had made, in the [c]house of God, of which God had said to David and to Solomon his son, (J)“In this house 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 Chronicles 33:3 Places for pagan worship
- 2 Chronicles 33:3 The gods of the Assyrians
- 2 Chronicles 33:7 Temple
2 Kings 23:11-12
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11 Then he removed the horses that the kings of Judah had [a]dedicated to the sun, at the entrance to the house of the Lord, by the chamber of Nathan-Melech, the officer who was in the court; and he burned the chariots of the sun with fire. 12 The altars that were (A)on the roof, the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which (B)Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the Lord, the king broke down and pulverized there, and threw their dust into the Brook Kidron.
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- 2 Kings 23:11 given
2 Kings 23:5-7
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5 Then he removed the idolatrous priests whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense on the high places in the cities of Judah and in the places all around Jerusalem, and those who burned incense to Baal, to the sun, to the moon, to the [a]constellations, and to (A)all the host of heaven. 6 And he brought out the (B)wooden[b] image from the house of the Lord, to the Brook Kidron outside Jerusalem, burned it at the Brook Kidron and ground it to (C)ashes, and threw its ashes on (D)the graves of the common people. 7 Then he tore down the ritual [c]booths (E)of the [d]perverted persons that were in the house of the Lord, (F)where the (G)women wove hangings for the wooden image.
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- 2 Kings 23:5 Of the Zodiac
- 2 Kings 23:6 Heb. Asherah, a Canaanite goddess
- 2 Kings 23:7 Lit. houses
- 2 Kings 23:7 Heb. qedeshim, those practicing sodomy and prostitution in religious rituals
2 Kings 21:3-7
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3 For he rebuilt the [a]high places (A)which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; he raised up altars for Baal, and made a [b]wooden image, (B)as Ahab king of Israel had done; and he (C)worshiped all [c]the host of heaven and served them. 4 (D)He also built altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, (E)“In Jerusalem I will put My name.” 5 And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the (F)two courts of the house of the Lord. 6 (G)Also he made his son pass through the fire, practiced (H)soothsaying, used witchcraft, and consulted spiritists and mediums. He did much evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke Him to anger. 7 He even set a carved image of [d]Asherah that he had made, in the [e]house of which the Lord had said to David and to Solomon his son, (I)“In this house 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 21:3 Places for pagan worship
- 2 Kings 21:3 Heb. Asherah, a Canaanite goddess
- 2 Kings 21:3 The gods of the Assyrians
- 2 Kings 21:7 A Canaanite goddess
- 2 Kings 21:7 Temple
Leviticus 26:30
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30 (A)I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars, and cast your carcasses on the lifeless forms of your idols;
and My soul shall abhor you.
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