They also built for themselves high places, sacred pillars and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every leafy tree;
2 Kings 16:4 - Tree of Life Version He offered sacrifices and burned incense on the high places, on the hills, and under every leafy 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 leafy tree;
The high places, however, were not taken away. The people were still sacrificing and burning incense on the high places.
Still, the high places were not taken away. The people were still sacrificing and burning incense in the high places.
For they provoked Him with their high places, so they aroused His jealousy with their graven images.
sitting among graves, spending the night in cave-tombs; eating swine’s flesh, and the broth of detestable things is in their pots,
Those who consecrate and purify themselves to enter the groves, following after one in the midst, who eat swine’s flesh, vermin and mice, will come to an end altogether. It is a declaration of Adonai.
So their children remember their altars and their Asherah poles by leafy trees on the high hills.
He said to me, “Son of man, this is the place of My throne, the place of the soles of My feet, where I will dwell in the midst of Bnei-Yisrael forever. The house of Israel will no longer defile My holy Name—neither they nor their kings—by their prostitution or by the corpses of their kings in their high places.
You will know that I am Adonai, when your slain lie among their idols surrounding their altars, on every high hill, on all the mountaintops, under every green tree and under every leafy oak—the places where they offer sweet aroma to all their idols.
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.