Jeremiah 17:2

Good News Translation

Your people worship at the altars and the symbols that have been set up for the goddess Asherah by every green tree and on the hilltops

Cross References

2 Chronicles 24:18

And so the people stopped worshiping in the Temple of the Lord, the God of their ancestors, and began to worship idols and the images of the goddess Asherah. Their guilt for these sins brought the Lord's anger on Judah and Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 33:19

The king's prayer and God's answer to it, and an account of the sins he committed before he repented—the evil he did, the pagan places of worship and the symbols of the goddess Asherah that he made and the idols that he worshiped—are all recorded in The History of the Prophets.

2 Chronicles 33:3

He rebuilt the pagan places of worship that his father Hezekiah had destroyed. He built altars for the worship of Baal, made images of the goddess Asherah, and worshiped the stars.

Psalm 78:58

They angered him with their heathen places of worship, and with their idols they made him furious.

Exodus 34:13

Instead, tear down their altars, destroy their sacred pillars, and cut down their symbols of the goddess Asherah.

Isaiah 1:29

You will be sorry that you ever worshiped trees and planted sacred gardens.

Isaiah 17:8

They will no longer rely on the altars they made with their own hands, or trust in their own handiwork—symbols of the goddess Asherah and altars for burning incense.

Jeremiah 2:20

The Sovereign Lord says, “Israel, long ago you rejected my authority; you refused to obey me and worship me. On every high hill and under every green tree you worshiped fertility gods.

Jeremiah 3:23

We were not helped at all by our pagan worship on the hilltops. Help for Israel comes only from the Lord our God.

Jeremiah 3:6

When Josiah was king, the Lord said to me, “Have you seen what Israel, that unfaithful woman, has done? She has turned away from me, and on every high hill and under every green tree she has acted like a prostitute.

Jeremiah 7:18

The children gather firewood, the men build fires, and the women mix dough to bake cakes for the goddess they call the Queen of Heaven. They also pour out offerings of wine to other gods, in order to hurt me.

Ezekiel 20:28

I brought them to the land I had promised to give them. When they saw the high hills and green trees, they offered sacrifices at all of them. They made me angry by the sacrifices they burned and by the wine they brought as offerings.

Deuteronomy 12:2

In the land that you are taking, destroy all the places where the people worship their gods on high mountains, on hills, and under green trees.

Judges 3:7

The people of Israel forgot the Lord their God; they sinned against him and worshiped the idols of Baal and Asherah.