Jeremiah 3:6

New American Bible - revised edition

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.

Cross References

1 Kings 14:23

They, too, built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and asherahs, upon every high hill and under every green tree.

2 Chronicles 34:1

Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem.

Psalm 106:39

They defiled themselves by their actions, became adulterers by their conduct.

Isaiah 57:3

But you, draw near, you children of a sorceress, offspring of an adulterer and a prostitute!

Isaiah 57:7

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

Jeremiah 1:2

The word of the Lord came to him in the days of Josiah, son of Amon, king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign,

Jeremiah 11:10

They have returned to the crimes of their ancestors who refused to obey my words. They also have followed and served other gods; the house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken the covenant I made with their ancestors.

Jeremiah 17:2

when their children remember their altars and their asherahs, beside the green trees, on the high hills,

Jeremiah 3:8

that, in response to all the adulteries rebel Israel had committed, I sent her away and gave her a bill of divorce, nevertheless Judah, the traitor, her sister, was not frightened; she too went off and played the prostitute.

Jeremiah 31:22

How long will you continue to hesitate, rebellious daughter? The Lord has created a new thing upon the earth: woman encompasses man.

Jeremiah 5:11

For they have openly rebelled against me, both the house of Israel and the house of Judah— oracle of the Lord.

Jeremiah 7:24

But they did not listen to me, nor did they pay attention. They walked in the stubbornness of their evil hearts and turned their backs, not their faces, to me.

Ezekiel 16:31

when you built your platform at every intersection and set up your high place in every public square. But unlike a prostitute, you disdained payment.

Ezekiel 16:35

Therefore, prostitute, hear the word of the Lord!

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 23:11

Although her sister Oholibah saw all this, her lust was more depraved than her sister’s; she outdid her in prostitution.

Ezekiel 23:4

Oholah was the name of the elder, and the name of her sister was Oholibah. They became mine and gave birth to sons and daughters. As for their names: Samaria was Oholah and Jerusalem, Oholibah.

Hosea 11:7

My people have their mind set on apostasy; though they call on God in unison, he shall not raise them up.

Hosea 4:13

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.

Judges 2:17

but they did not listen to their judges either, for they prostituted themselves by following other gods, bowing down to them. They were quick to stray from the way their ancestors had taken, who obeyed the commandments of the Lord; but these did not.