Deuteronomy 12:2

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

“You must demolish completely all the places where the nations whom you are about to dispossess served their gods, on the mountain heights, on the hills, and under every leafy tree.

Cross References

1 Kings 14:23

For they also built for themselves high places, pillars, and sacred poles on every high hill and under every green tree;

1 Kings 3:2

The people were sacrificing at the high places, however, because no house had yet been built for the name of the Lord.

2 Kings 11:18

Then all the people of the land went to the house of Baal and tore it down; his altars and his images they broke in pieces, and they killed Mattan, the priest of Baal, in front of the altars. The priest posted guards over the house of the Lord.

2 Kings 16:4

He sacrificed and made offerings on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.

2 Kings 23:13

The king defiled the high places that were east of Jerusalem, to the south of the Mount of Destruction, which King Solomon of Israel had built for Astarte the abomination of the Sidonians, for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.

Psalm 78:58

For they provoked him to anger with their high places; they moved him to jealousy with their idols.

Exodus 23:24

you shall not bow down to their gods or serve them or follow their practices, but you shall utterly demolish them and break their pillars in pieces.

Isaiah 36:7

But if you say to me, ‘We rely on the Lord our God,’ [[is it not he whose high places and altars Hezekiah has removed, saying to Judah and to Jerusalem, ‘You shall worship before this altar’?]]

Jeremiah 17:2

while their children remember their altars and their sacred poles beside every green tree and on the high hills,

Jeremiah 2:20

For long ago you broke your yoke and burst your bonds, and you said, “I will not serve!” On every high hill and under every green tree you sprawled and prostituted yourself.

Jeremiah 3:13

Only acknowledge your guilt, that you have rebelled against the Lord your God and scattered your favors among strangers under every green tree and have not obeyed my voice, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 3:2

Look up to the bare heights and see! Where have you not been lain with? By the waysides you sat waiting for lovers, like a nomad in the wilderness. You have polluted the land with your prostitutions and wickedness.

Jeremiah 3:6

The Lord said to me in the days of King Josiah: Have you seen what she did, that faithless one, Israel, how she went up on every high hill and under every green tree and prostituted herself there?

Hosea 4:13

They sacrifice on the tops of the mountains and make offerings upon the hills, under oak, poplar, and terebinth because their shade is good. Therefore your daughters prostitute themselves, and your daughters-in-law commit adultery.

Numbers 22:41

On the next day Balak took Balaam and brought him up to Bamoth-baal, and from there he could see part of the people of Israel.

Deuteronomy 7:5

But this is how you must deal with them: break down their altars, smash their pillars, cut down their sacred poles, and burn their idols with fire.

Judges 2:2

For your part, do not make a covenant with the inhabitants of this land; tear down their altars.’ But you have not obeyed my command. See what you have done!