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Deuteronomy 12:2
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.
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Isaiah 57:5
who burn with lust among the oaks, under every green tree, who slaughter children in the wadis below the clefts of the rocks?
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Ezekiel 16:24-25
“ you built yourself a mound and made yourself an elevated place in every square.You built your elevated place at the head of every street and turned your beauty into a detestable thing. You spread your legs to everyone who passed by and increased your prostitution.
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2 Kings 17 9-2 Kings 17 10
The Israelites secretly did what was not right against the Lord their God. They built high places in all their towns from watchtower to fortified city.They set up for themselves sacred pillars and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.
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2 Kings 21 3-2 Kings 21 7
He rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed and reestablished the altars for Baal. He made an Asherah, as King Ahab of Israel had done; he also worshiped the whole heavenly host and served them.He built altars in the Lord’s temple, where the Lord had said,“ Jerusalem is where I will put My name.”He built altars to the whole heavenly host in both courtyards of the Lord’s temple.He made his son pass through the fire, practiced witchcraft and divination, and consulted mediums and spiritists. He did a great amount of evil in the Lord’s sight, provoking Him.Manasseh set up the carved image of Asherah, which he made, in the temple that the Lord had spoken about to David and his son Solomon,“ I will establish My name forever in this temple and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel.
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Ezekiel 20:28-29
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.So I asked them: What is this high place you are going to? And it is called High Place to this day.
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Jeremiah 17:2
while their children remember their altars and their Asherah poles, by the green trees on the high hills—
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1 Kings 14 15
For the Lord will strike Israel and the people will shake as a reed shakes in water. He will uproot Israel from this good soil that He gave to their ancestors. He will scatter them beyond the Euphrates because they made their Asherah poles, provoking the Lord.
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Micah 5:14
I will pull up the Asherah poles from among you and demolish your cities.
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Leviticus 26:1
“ Do not make idols for yourselves, set up a carved image or sacred pillar for yourselves, or place a sculpted stone in your land to bow down to it, for I am Yahweh your God.
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Jeremiah 2:20
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 lie down like a prostitute.
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2 Chronicles 28 4
He sacrificed and burned incense on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.
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Deuteronomy 16:22
and do not set up a sacred pillar; the Lord your God hates them.
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Jeremiah 3:13
Only acknowledge your guilt— you have rebelled against the Lord your God. You have scattered your favors to strangers under every green tree and have not obeyed My voice. This is the Lord’s declaration.
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1 Kings 3 2
However, the people were sacrificing on the high places, because until that time a temple for the Lord’s name had not been built.