Deuteronomy 12:2 - The Scriptures 1998

² “Completely destroy all the places where the nations which you are dispossessing served their mighty ones, on the high mountains and on the hills and under every green tree.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² Ye shall utterly 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:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² You shall surely destroy all the places where the nations you dispossess served their gods, upon the high mountains and the hills and under every green tree.

American Standard Version (1901)

² Ye shall surely destroy all the places wherein the nations that ye shall dispossess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree:

Common English Bible

² You must completely destroy every place where the nations that you are displacing worshipped their gods—whether on high mountains or hills or under leafy green trees.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² Overturn all the places where the nations, which you will possess, worshipped their gods on lofty mountains, and on hills, and under every leafy tree.

Deuteronomy 12:2 Cross References

1 Kings 14:23

For they also built for themselves high places, and pillars, and Ashĕ

1 Kings 3:2

Only, the people slaughtered at the high places, for a house for the Name of יהוה  had not been built until those days.

2 Kings 11:18

And all the people of the land went to the house of Baʽ

2 Kings 16:4

And he slaughtered and burned incense on the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.

2 Kings 23:13

And the sovereign defiled the high places that were before Yerushalayim, which were on the right hand of the Mountain of Destruction, which Shelomoh sovereign of Yisra’ĕ

Psalm 78:58

For they enraged Him with their high places, And moved Him to jealousy with their carved images.

Exodus 23:24

“Do not bow down to their mighty ones, nor serve them, nor do according to their works, but without fail overthrow them and without fail break down their pillars.

Isaiah 36:7

“But if you say to me, ‘We trust in יהוה  our Elohim,’ is it not He whose high places and whose altars Ḥ

Jeremiah 17:2

while their children remember their altars and their Ashĕ

Jeremiah 2:20

“For of old you have broken your yoke and tore of your bonds. And you said, ‘I am not serving You,’ when on every high hill and under every green tree you lay down, a whore.

Jeremiah 3:13

‘Only, acknowledge your crookedness, because you have transgressed against יהוה  your Elohim, and have scattered your ways to strangers under every green tree, and you have not obeyed My voice,’ declares יהוה.

Jeremiah 3:2

“Lift up your eyes to the bare heights and see: where have you not lain with men? Besides the ways you have sat for them like an Araḇ

Jeremiah 3:6

And יהוה  said to me in the days of Yoshiyahu the sovereign, “Have you seen what backsliding Yisra’ĕ

Hosea 4:13

“They slaughter on the mountaintops, and burn incense on the hills, under oak and poplars and terebinth, because its shade is good. Therefore your daughters commit whoring, and your brides commit adultery.

Numbers 22:41

And it came to be the next day, that Balaq took Bilʽ

Deuteronomy 7:5

“But this is what you do to them: Break down their altars, and smash their pillars, and cut down their Ashĕ

Judges 2:2

and as for you, do not make a covenant with the inhabitants of this land – break down their altars.’ But you have not obeyed My voice. What is this you have done?