For they also built them high places, and pillars, and Asherim, on every high hill, and under every green tree;
2 Kings 16:4 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895 And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition He sacrificed and burned incense in the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree. American Standard Version (1901) And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree. Common English Bible He also sacrificed and burned incense at the shrines on every hill and beneath every shady tree. Catholic Public Domain Version Also, he was immolating victims, and burning incense, in the high places, and on the hills, and under every leafy tree. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version He sacrificed also and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree. |
For they also built them high places, and pillars, and Asherim, on every high hill, and under every green tree;
And Jehoash said to the priests, All the money of the hallowed things that is brought into the house of the LORD, in current money, the money of the persons for whom each man is rated, and all the money that it cometh into any man's heart to bring into the house of the LORD,
Howbeit the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
For they provoked him to anger with their high places, And moved him to jealousy with their graven images.
which sit among the graves, and lodge in the secret places; which eat swine's flesh, and broth of abominable things is in their vessels;
They that sanctify themselves and purify themselves to go unto the gardens, behind one in the midst, eating swine's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse; they shall come to an end together, saith the LORD.
whilst their children remember their altars and their Asherim by the green trees upon the high hills.
And he said unto me, Son of man, this is the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel for ever: and the house of Israel shall no more defile my holy name, neither they, nor their kings, by their whoredom, and by the carcases of their kings in their high places;
And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when their slain men shall be among their idols round about their altars, upon every high hill, in all the tops of the mountains, and under every green tree, and under every thick oak, the place where they did offer sweet savour to all their idols.
Ye shall surely destroy all the places, wherein the nations which ye shall possess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree: