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

They also set up for themselves high places, sacred stones and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every spreading tree.

He offered sacrifices and burned incense at the high places, on the hilltops and under every spreading tree.

They set up sacred stones and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every spreading tree.

He offered sacrifices and burned incense at the high places, on the hilltops and under every spreading tree.

You burn with lust among the oaks and under every spreading tree; you sacrifice your children in the ravines and under the overhanging crags.

“Long ago you broke off your yoke and tore off your bonds; you said, ‘I will not serve you!’ Indeed, on every high hill and under every spreading tree you lay down as a prostitute.

Unfaithful Israel

During the reign of King Josiah, the Lord said to me, “Have you seen what faithless Israel has done? She has gone up on every high hill and under every spreading tree and has committed adultery there.

Only acknowledge your guilt— you have rebelled against the Lord your God, you have scattered your favors to foreign gods under every spreading tree, and have not obeyed me,’” declares the Lord.

Even their children remember their altars and Asherah poles beside the spreading trees and on the high hills.

And they will know that I am the Lord, when their people lie slain among their idols around their altars, on every high hill and on all the mountaintops, under every spreading tree and every leafy oak—places where they offered fragrant incense to all their idols.

So it towered higher than all the trees of the field; its boughs increased and its branches grew long, spreading because of abundant waters.