They also built for themselves high places, sacred pillars and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every leafy tree;
Deuteronomy 16:22 - Tree of Life Version Nor are you to set up a pillar for yourself—Adonai your God hates this. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Neither shalt thou set thee up any image; which the LORD thy God hateth. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Neither shall you set up an idolatrous stone or image, which the Lord your God hates. American Standard Version (1901) Neither shalt thou set thee up a pillar; which Jehovah thy God hateth. Common English Bible Don’t set up any sacred stone either, because the LORD your God hates such things. Catholic Public Domain Version you shall neither make nor set up for yourself a statue. These things the Lord your God hates." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Neither shalt thou make nor set up to thyself a statue: which things the Lord thy God hateth. |
They also built for themselves high places, sacred pillars and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every leafy tree;
and they set up pillars and Asherah poles for themselves on every high hill and under every leafy tree.
Do not make for yourself a graven image , or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above or on the earth below or in the water under the earth.
Instead you must break down their altars, smash their pillars and cut down their Asherah poles.
Yet I sent you all My servants the prophets, sending them early and often, saying: ‘Oh, do not do this loathsome thing that I hate.’
“You are not to make idols for yourselves, nor raise up an engraved image or a standing-stone, or place any carved stone in your land to bow down to it. For I am Adonai your God.
do not let any of you devise evil in your hearts against your neighbor; and do not love false oaths, for I hate all these things,”—it is a declaration of Adonai.
You are not to act like this toward Adonai your God! For every abomination of Adonai, which He hates, they have done to their gods—they even burn their sons and daughters in the fire to their gods.
so that you do not act corruptly and make for yourselves a graven image in the likeness of any figure—the form of a male or female,
Watch yourselves, so that you do not forget the covenant of Adonai your God, which He cut with you, and make for yourselves a graven image in the form of anything that Adonai your God has forbidden you.
“When you father children and children’s children and have been in the land a long time, and you act corruptly and make a graven image in the form of anything and do evil in the sight of Adonai your God, provoking Him to anger,
Likewise you also have those who hold to the teaching of the Nicolaitans.
“Yet you have this going for you, that you hate the deeds of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.