2 Kings 17:9

New American Bible - revised edition

They adopted unlawful practices toward the Lord, their God. They built high places in all their cities, from guard post to garrisoned town.

Cross References

2 Kings 18:8

It was he who struck the Philistines as far as Gaza, and all its territory from guard post to garrisoned town.

Job 31:27

And had my heart been secretly enticed to blow them a kiss with my hand,

Psalm 78:58

They enraged him with their high places, and with their idols provoked him to jealous anger.

Isaiah 29:15

Ah! You who would hide a plan too deep for the Lord! Who work in the dark, saying, “Who sees us, who knows us?”

Ezekiel 20:28

When I brought them to the land I had sworn to give them, and they saw all its high hills and leafy trees, there they offered sacrifices, there they made offerings to provoke me, there they sent up sweet-smelling oblations, there they poured out their libations.

Ezekiel 8:12

Then he said to me: Do you see, son of man, what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the dark, each in his idol chamber? They think: “The Lord cannot see us; the Lord has forsaken the land.”

Hosea 12:11

I spoke to the prophets, I granted many visions, and through the prophets I told parables.

Deuteronomy 13:6

But that prophet or that dreamer shall be put to death, because, in order to lead you astray from the way which the Lord, your God, has commanded you to take, the prophet or dreamer has spoken apostasy against the Lord, your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the house of slavery. Thus shall you purge the evil from your midst.

Deuteronomy 27:15

“Cursed be anyone who makes a carved or molten idol, an abomination to the Lord, the work of a craftsman’s hands, and sets it up in secret!” And all the people shall answer, “Amen!”

Deuteronomy 29:25

and they went and served other gods and bowed down to them, gods whom they did not know and whom he had not apportioned to them.