For they also built for themselves high places, pillars, and sacred poles on every high hill and under every green tree;
Deuteronomy 16:22 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 nor shall you set up a stone pillar—things that the Lord your God hates. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Neither shalt thou set thee up any image; which the LORD thy God hateth. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Neither shall you set up an idolatrous stone or image, which the Lord your God hates. American Standard Version (1901) Neither shalt thou set thee up a pillar; which Jehovah thy God hateth. Common English Bible Don’t set up any sacred stone either, because the LORD your God hates such things. Catholic Public Domain Version you shall neither make nor set up for yourself a statue. These things the Lord your God hates." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Neither shalt thou make nor set up to thyself a statue: which things the Lord thy God hateth. |
For they also built for themselves high places, pillars, and sacred poles on every high hill and under every green tree;
they set up for themselves pillars and sacred poles on every high hill and under every green tree;
“You shall not make for yourself an idol, whether in the form of anything that is in heaven above or that is on the earth beneath or that is in the water under the earth.
Rather, you shall tear down their altars, break their pillars, and cut down their sacred poles,
Yet I persistently sent to you all my servants the prophets, saying, “I beg you not to do this abominable thing that I hate!”
“You shall make for yourselves no idols and erect no carved images or pillars, and you shall not place figured stones in your land, to worship at them, for I am the Lord your God.
do not devise evil in your hearts against one another, and love no false oath, for all these are things that I hate, says the Lord.”
You must not do the same for the Lord your God, because every abhorrent thing that the Lord hates they have done for their gods. They would even burn their sons and their daughters in the fire to their gods.
so that you do not act corruptly by making an idol for yourselves in the form of any figure: the likeness of male or female,
So be careful, lest you forget the covenant that the Lord your God made with you and make for yourselves an idol in the form of anything that the Lord your God has forbidden you.
“When you have had children and children’s children and become complacent in the land, if you act corruptly by making an idol in the form of anything, thus doing what is evil in the sight of the Lord your God and provoking him to anger,
Yet this is to your credit: you hate the works of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.