Deuteronomy 12:2

Tree of Life Version

You must utterly destroy all the places where the nations that you will dispossess served their gods—on the high mountains and on the hills and under every green tree.

Cross References

1 Kings 14:23

They also built for themselves high places, sacred pillars and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every leafy tree;

1 Kings 3:2

The people, however, were still sacrificing on the high places, because there was no House built for the Name of Adonai until those days.

2 Kings 11:18

Next, all the people of the land went to the temple of Baal and tore it down. They broke his altars and his images into pieces thoroughly, and slew Mattan, the priest of Baal, before the altars. Moreover, the kohen appointed officers over the House of Adonai.

2 Kings 16:4

He offered sacrifices and burned incense on the high places, on the hills, and under every leafy tree.

2 Kings 23:13

The king also desecrated the shrines facing Jerusalem—to the south of the Mount of Destruction—which King Solomon of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Zidonians, for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.

Psalm 78:58

For they provoked Him with their high places, so they aroused His jealousy with their graven images.

Exodus 23:24

You are not to bow down to their gods or serve them, or do what they do. Rather, you are to utterly overthrow them, and break their pillars in pieces.

Isaiah 36:7

“‘But if you say to me: ‘We trust in Adonai our God’—is it not He whose high places and altars Hezekiah has removed, and then said to Judah and to Jerusalem, ‘You must worship before this altar’?

Jeremiah 17:2

So their children remember their altars and their Asherah poles by leafy trees on the high hills.

Jeremiah 2:20

“Indeed, long ago I broke your yoke and tore off your bonds. You said, ‘I will not serve!’ Instead, on every high hill and under every green tree you sprawled out as a prostitute.

Jeremiah 3:13

Only acknowledge your iniquity. For you sinned against Adonai your God and scattered your favors to foreign gods under every green tree. You have not obeyed My voice.” It is a declaration of Adonai.

Jeremiah 3:2

“Lift your eyes to the barren hills and see! Where have you not been violated? By the wayside you sat waiting for them like a nomad in the desert. You have polluted the land with your prostitution and wickedness.

Jeremiah 3:6

Then Adonai said to me in the days of King Josiah: “Have you seen what backsliding Israel did? She went up on every high mountain and under every green tree, and there she committed adultery.

Hosea 4:13

They sacrifice on the mountaintops and on the high places they burn incense under oak poplar, and terebinth— for its shade is good. Therefore your daughters are prostitutes and your daughters-in-law commit adultery.

Numbers 22:41

In the morning, Balak took Balaam with him to Bamoth-baal, and from there he saw part of the people.

Deuteronomy 7:5

Instead, you are to deal with them like this: tear down their altars, smash their pillars, cut down their Asherah poles, and burn their carved images with fire.

Judges 2:2

Now as for you, you must make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land. You must break down their altars.’ But you have not listened to My voice. What is this you have done?