They also built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree;
Isaiah 57:5 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised who burn with lust among the oaks, under every green tree, who slaughter children in the wadis below the clefts of the rocks? Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition You who burn with lust [inflaming yourselves with idols] among the oaks, under every green tree, you who slay the children [in sacrifice] in the valleys under the clefts of the rocks? American Standard Version (1901) ye that inflame yourselves among the oaks, under every green tree; that slay the children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks? Common English Bible who console yourselves with idols under every green tree, who slaughter children in the valleys, under the rocky cliffs? Catholic Public Domain Version who are being consoled by idols under every leafy tree, immolating little children at the torrents, under the high rocks? Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Who seek your comfort in idols under every green tree, sacrificing children in the torrents, under the high rocks? |
They also built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree;
They set up for themselves sacred pillars and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.
This disaster happened because the people of Israel sinned against the Lord their God who had brought them out of the land of Egypt from the power of Pharaoh king of Egypt and because they worshipped other gods.
He defiled Topheth, which is in Ben Hinnom Valley, so that no one could sacrifice his son or daughter in the fire , to Molech.
He burned incense in Ben Hinnom Valley and burned his children in , the fire, imitating the detestable practices of the nations the Lord had dispossessed before the Israelites.
Early the next morning they arose, offered burnt offerings, and presented fellowship offerings. The people sat down to eat and drink, and got up to party.
Indeed, they will be ashamed of the sacred trees you desired, and you will be embarrassed because of the garden shrines you have chosen.
while their children remember their altars and their Asherah poles, by the green trees on the high hills –
For long ago I broke your yoke; I tore off your chains. You insisted, ‘I will not serve! ’ On every high hill and under every green tree you lay down like a prostitute.
Only acknowledge your guilt – you have rebelled against the Lord your God. You have scattered your favours to strangers under every green tree and have not obeyed me. This is the Lord’s declaration.
In the days of King Josiah the Lord asked me, ‘Have you seen what unfaithful Israel has done? She has ascended every high hill and gone under every green tree to prostitute herself there.
They have built the high places of Baal in Ben Hinnom Valley to sacrifice their sons and daughters in the fire to Molech #– #something I had not commanded them. I had never entertained the thought that they do this detestable act, causing Judah to sin!
A drought will come on her waters, and they will be dried up. For it is a land of carved images, and they go mad because of terrifying things. ,
Babylon was a gold cup in the Lord’s hand, making the whole earth drunk. The nations drank her wine; therefore, the nations go mad.
They have built the high places of Topheth , in Ben Hinnom Valley , in order to burn their sons and daughters in the fire, a thing I did not command; I never entertained the thought.
‘ “You even took your sons and daughters you bore to me and sacrificed them to these images as food. Wasn’t your prostitution enough?
When they sacrificed every firstborn in the fire, , I defiled them through their gifts in order to devastate them so that they would know that I am the Lord.”
When I brought them into the land that I swore to give them and they saw any high hill or leafy tree, they offered their sacrifices and presented their offensive offerings there. They also sent up their pleasing aromas and poured out their drink offerings there.
When you offer your gifts, sacrificing your children in the fire, , you still continue to defile yourselves with all your idols today. So should I let you enquire of me, house of Israel? As I live #– #this is the declaration of the Lord God #– #I will not let you enquire of me!
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.
‘You are not to sacrifice any of your children in the fire to Molech. Do not profane the name of your God; I am the Lord.
An Israelite man came bringing a Midianite woman to his relatives in the sight of Moses and the whole Israelite community while they were weeping at the entrance to the tent of meeting.
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.
For all the nations have drunk the wine of her sexual immorality, which brings wrath. The kings of the earth have committed sexual immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth have grown wealthy from her sensuality and excess.