Hosea 4:13

New American Bible - revised edition

On the mountaintops they offer sacrifice and on the hills they burn incense, Beneath oak and poplar and terebinth, because of their pleasant shade. Therefore your daughters prostitute themselves, and your daughters-in-law commit adultery.

Cross References

2 Kings 17:7

This came about because the Israelites sinned against the Lord, their God, who had brought them up from the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh, king of Egypt. They venerated other gods,

2 Kings 23:7

He tore down the apartments of the cult prostitutes in the house of the Lord, where the women wove garments for the Asherah.

Isaiah 1:29

You shall be ashamed of the terebinths which you desired, and blush on account of the gardens which you chose.

Isaiah 57:5

You who burn with lust among the oaks, under every green tree; You who immolate children in the wadies, among the clefts of the rocks?

Isaiah 57:7

Upon a towering and lofty mountain you set up your bed, and there you went up to offer sacrifice.

Jeremiah 2:20

Long ago you broke your yoke, you tore off your bonds. You said, “I will not serve.” On every high hill, under every green tree, you sprawled and served as a prostitute.

Jeremiah 3:13

Only admit your guilt: how you have rebelled against the Lord, your God, How you ran here and there to strangers under every green tree and would not listen to my voice—oracle of the Lord.

Jeremiah 3:6

The Lord said to me in the days of King Josiah: Do you see what rebellious Israel has done? She has gone up every high mountain, and under every green tree she has played the prostitute.

Jeremiah 44:8

Why do you provoke me with the works of your hands, offering sacrifice to other gods here in the land of Egypt where you have come to live? Will you cut yourselves off and become a curse, a reproach among all the nations of the earth?

Ezekiel 16:16

You took some of your garments and made for yourself gaudy high places, where you served as a prostitute. It has never happened before, nor will it happen again!

Ezekiel 16:25

At every intersection you built yourself a dais so that you could degrade your beauty by spreading your legs for every passerby, multiplying your prostitutions.

Ezekiel 6:13

They shall know that I am the Lord, when their slain lie among their idols, all around their altars, on every high hill and mountaintop, beneath every green tree and leafy oak—any place they offer sweet-smelling oblations to all their idols.

Hosea 10:8

The high places of Aven will be destroyed, the sin of Israel; thorns and thistles will overgrow their altars. Then they will cry out to the mountains, “Cover us!” and to the hills, “Fall upon us!”

Hosea 11:2

The more I called them, the farther they went from me, Sacrificing to the Baals and burning incense to idols.

Hosea 2:13

I will put an end to all her joy, her festivals, her new moons, her sabbaths— all her seasonal feasts.

Amos 7:17

Therefore thus says the Lord: Your wife shall become a prostitute in the city, and your sons and daughters shall fall by the sword. Your land shall be parcelled out by measuring line, and you yourself shall die in an unclean land; and Israel shall be exiled from its land.”