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2 Kings 16:4

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Ahaz offered sacrifices and burned incense at the places where gods were worshiped, on the hills, and under every green tree.

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The people built stone pillars and places to worship gods and Asherah idols on every high hill and under every green tree.

Joash said to the priests, “Take all the money brought as offerings to the Temple of the Lord. This includes the money each person owes in taxes and the money each person promises or brings freely to the Lord.

The places where gods were worshiped were not removed, so the people still sacrificed and burned incense there.

They made God angry by building places to worship gods; they made him jealous with their idols.

They sit among the graves and spend their nights waiting to get messages from the dead. They eat the meat of pigs, and their pots are full of soup made from meat that is wrong to eat.

“These people make themselves holy and pure to go to worship their gods in their gardens. Following each other into their special gardens, they eat the meat of pigs and rats and other hateful things. But they will all be destroyed together,” says the Lord.

Even their children remember their altars to idols and their Asherah idols beside the green trees and on the high hills.

The voice from the Temple said to me, “Human, this is my throne and the place where my feet rest. I will live here among the Israelites forever. The people of Israel will not make my holy name unclean again. Neither the people nor their kings will make it unclean with their sexual sins or with the dead bodies of their kings.

Their people will lie dead among their idols around the altars, on every high hill, on all the mountain tops, and under every green tree and leafy oak—all the places where they offered sweet-smelling incense to their idols. Then you will know that I am the Lord.

When you inherit the lands of these nations, you must completely destroy all the places where they serve their gods, on high mountains and hills and under every green tree.




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