They also built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree;
2 Kings 16:4 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised He sacrificed and burned incense on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition He sacrificed and burned incense in the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree. American Standard Version (1901) And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree. Common English Bible He also sacrificed and burned incense at the shrines on every hill and beneath every shady tree. Catholic Public Domain Version Also, he was immolating victims, and burning incense, in the high places, and on the hills, and under every leafy tree. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version He sacrificed also and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree. |
They also built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree;
Then Joash said to the priests, ‘All the dedicated silver brought to the Lord’s temple, census silver, silver from vows, and all silver voluntarily given for the Lord’s temple #– #
Yet the high places were not taken away, and the people continued sacrificing and burning incense on the high places.
sitting among the graves, spending nights in secret places, eating the meat of pigs, and putting polluted broth in their bowls.
‘Those who dedicate and purify themselves to enter the groves following their leader, eating meat from pigs, vermin, and rats, will perish together.’ This is the Lord’s declaration.
while their children remember their altars and their Asherah poles, by the green trees on the high hills –
He said to me, ‘Son of man, this is the place of my throne and the place for the soles of my feet, where I will dwell among the Israelites for ever. The house of Israel and their kings will no longer defile my holy name by their religious prostitution and by the corpses , of their kings at their high places. ,
You will all know that I am the Lord when their slain lie among their idols around their altars, on every high hill, on all the mountaintops, and under every green tree and every leafy oak #– #the places where they offered pleasing aromas to all their idols.
Destroy completely all the places where the nations that you are driving out worship their gods #– #on the high mountains, on the hills, and under every green tree.