Jeremiah 17:2 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

² whilst their children remember their altars and their Asherim by the green trees upon the high hills.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² whilst their children remember their altars and their groves by the green trees upon the high hills.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² While their children [earnestly] remember their [heathen] altars and their Asherim [wooden symbols of the goddess Asherah] beside the green trees upon the high hills.

American Standard Version (1901)

² whilst their children remember their altars and their Asherim by the green trees upon the high hills.

Common English Bible

² Their children remember their altars and sacred poles by the lush trees and high hills.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² And their sons make a remembrance of their shrines, and their sacred groves, and their leafy trees on high mountains,

Jeremiah 17:2 Cross References

2 Chronicles 24:18

And they forsook the house of the LORD, the God of their fathers, and served the Asherim and the idols: and wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem for this their guiltiness.

Jeremiah 2:20

For of old time I have broken thy yoke, and burst thy bands; and thou saidst, I will not serve; for upon every high hill and under every green tree thou didst bow thyself, playing the harlot.

Isaiah 17:8

And he shall not look to the altars, the work of his hands, neither shall he have respect to that which his fingers have made, either the Asherim, or the sun-images.

Isaiah 1:29

For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired, and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen.

2 Chronicles 33:3

For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down; and he reared up altars for the Baalim, and made Asheroth, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.

Judges 3:7

And the children of Israel did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, and forgat the LORD their God, and served the Baalim and the Asheroth.

Ezekiel 20:28

For when I had brought them into the land, which I lifted up mine hand to give unto them, then they saw every high hill, and every thick tree, and they offered there their sacrifices, and there they presented the provocation of their offering, there also they made their sweet savour, and they poured out there their drink offerings.

Jeremiah 7:18

The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead the dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.

Psalm 78:58

For they provoked him to anger with their high places, And moved him to jealousy with their graven images.

2 Chronicles 33:19

His prayer also, and how God was entreated of him, and all his sin and his trespass, and the places wherein he built high places, and set up the Asherim and the graven images, before he humbled himself: behold, they are written in the history of Hozai.

Exodus 34:13

but ye shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and ye shall cut down their Asherim:

Jeremiah 3:6

Moreover the LORD said unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen that which backsliding Israel hath done? she is gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there hath played the harlot.

Jeremiah 3:23

Truly in vain is the help that is looked for from the hills, the tumult on the mountains: truly in the LORD our God is the salvation of Israel.

Deuteronomy 12:2

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: