Ezekiel 16:24
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24 you built yourself a platform and made yourself a lofty place in every square;(A)
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Ezekiel 16:39
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39 I will deliver you into their hands, and they shall throw down your platform and break down your lofty places; they shall strip you of your clothes and take your beautiful objects and leave you naked and bare.(A)
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Ezekiel 16:31
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31 building your platform at the head of every street and making your lofty place in every square! Yet you were not like a prostitute because you scorned payment.
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Jeremiah 2:20
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20 For long ago you broke your yoke
and burst your bonds,
and you said, “I will not serve!”
On every high hill
and under every green tree
you sprawled and prostituted yourself.(A)
Isaiah 57:7
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7 Upon a high and lofty mountain
you have set your bed,
and there you went up to offer sacrifice.(A)
Psalm 78:58
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58 For they provoked him to anger with their high places;
they moved him to jealousy with their idols.(A)
Ezekiel 20:28-29
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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.”)
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- 20.29 That is, high place
Jeremiah 3:2
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2 Look up to the bare heights[a] and see!
Where have you not been lain with?
By the waysides you sat waiting for lovers,
like a nomad in the wilderness.
You have polluted the land
with your prostitutions and wickedness.(A)
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- 3.2 Or the trails
Jeremiah 17:3
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3 on the mountains in the open country. Your wealth and all your treasures I will give for spoil as the price of your sin[a] throughout all your territory.
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- 17.3 Cn: Heb spoil, your high places for sin
Isaiah 57:5
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5 you who burn with lust among the oaks,
under every green tree;
you who slaughter your children in the valleys,
under the clefts of the rocks?(A)
2 Chronicles 33:3-7
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3 For he rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had pulled down and erected altars to the Baals, made sacred poles,[a] worshiped all the host of heaven, and served them.(A) 4 He built altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, “In Jerusalem shall my name be forever.”(B) 5 He built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the Lord.(C) 6 He made his son pass through fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom, practiced soothsaying and augury and sorcery, and dealt with mediums and with wizards. He did much evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger.(D) 7 The carved image of the idol that he had made he set in the house of God, of which God had said to David and to his son Solomon, “In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my name forever;(E)
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- 33.3 Or Asherahs
2 Kings 23:11-12
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11 He removed the horses that the kings of Judah had dedicated to the sun at the entrance to the house of the Lord, by the chamber of the eunuch Nathan-melech, which was in the precincts;[a] then he burned the chariots of the sun with fire. 12 The altars on the roof of the upper chamber of Ahaz that the kings of Judah had made and the altars that Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the Lord he pulled down from there and broke in pieces and threw the rubble into the Wadi Kidron.(A)
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- 23.11 Meaning of Heb uncertain
2 Kings 23:5-7
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5 He deposed the idolatrous priests whom the kings of Judah had ordained to make offerings in the high places at the cities of Judah and around Jerusalem, those also who made offerings to Baal, to the sun, the moon, the constellations, and all the host of the heavens. 6 He brought out the image of[a] Asherah from the house of the Lord, outside Jerusalem, to the Wadi Kidron, burned it at the Wadi Kidron, beat it to dust, and threw the dust of it upon the graves of the common people.(A) 7 He broke down the houses of the illicit priests who were in the house of the Lord, where the women did weaving for Asherah.(B)
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- 23.6 Heb lacks image of
2 Kings 21:3-7
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3 For he rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed; he erected altars for Baal, made a sacred pole,[a] as King Ahab of Israel had done, worshiped all the host of heaven and served them.(A) 4 He built altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, “In Jerusalem I will put my name.”(B) 5 He built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the Lord. 6 He made his son pass through fire; he practiced soothsaying and augury and dealt with mediums and with wizards. He did much evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger.(C) 7 The carved image of Asherah that he had made he set in the house of which the Lord said to David and to his son Solomon, “In this house and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my name forever;(D)
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- 21.3 Or Asherah
Leviticus 26:30
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30 I will destroy your high places and cut down your incense altars; I will heap your carcasses on the carcasses of your idols. I will abhor you.(A)
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