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Deuteronomy 12:2
You shall utterly destroy all the places where the nations whom you are going to dispossess serve their gods, on the high mountains, on the hills, and under every leafy tree.
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Isaiah 57:5
Who inflame yourselves among the oaks, Under every luxuriant tree, Who slaughter the children in the ravines, Under the clefts of the rocks?
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Ezekiel 16:24-25
that you built yourself a shrine and made yourself a high place in every public square.You built yourself a high place at the beginning of every street and made your beauty abominable, and you spread your legs to every passer by and multiplied your obscene practice.
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2 Kings 17 9-2 Kings 17 10
And the sons of Israel did things secretly against the Lord their God which were not right. Moreover, they built for themselves high places in all their towns, from watchtower to fortified city.And they set up for themselves memorial stones and Asherim on every high hill and under every green tree,
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2 Kings 21 3-2 Kings 21 7
For he rebuilt the high places which his father Hezekiah had destroyed; and he erected altars for Baal and made an Asherah, just as Ahab king of Israel had done, and he worshiped all the heavenly lights and served them.And he built altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord had said,“ In Jerusalem I will put My name.”He built altars for all the heavenly lights in the two courtyards of the house of the Lord.And he made his son pass through the fire, interpreted signs, practiced divination, and used mediums and spiritists. He did great evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking Him to anger.Then he put the carved image of Asherah that he had made in the house of which the Lord had said to David and to his son Solomon,“ In this house and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen from all the tribes of Israel, I will put My name forever.
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Ezekiel 20:28-29
When I had brought them into the land which I swore to give to them, then they saw every high hill and every tree thick with branches, and there they offered their sacrifices and there they presented the provocation of their offering. There also they made their soothing aroma and there they poured out their drink offerings.Then I said to them,‘ What is the high place to which you go?’ So its name is called Bamah to this day.” ’
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Jeremiah 17:2
As they remember their children, So they remember their altars and their Asherim By green trees on the high hills.
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1 Kings 14 15
“ For the Lord will strike Israel, just as a reed sways in the water; and He will uproot Israel from this good land which He gave to their fathers, and will scatter them beyond the Euphrates River, because they have made their Asherim, provoking the Lord to anger.
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Micah 5:14
I will uproot your Asherim from among you, And destroy your cities.
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Leviticus 26:1
‘ You shall not make for yourselves idols, nor shall you set up for yourselves a carved image or a memorial stone, nor shall you place a figured stone in your land to bow down to it; for I am the Lord your God.
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Jeremiah 2:20
“ For long ago I broke your yoke And tore off your restraints; But you said,‘ I will not serve!’ For on every high hill And under every leafy tree You have lain down as 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 you shall not set up for yourself a memorial stone, which the Lord your God hates.
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Jeremiah 3:13
Only acknowledge your wrongdoing, That you have revolted against the Lord your God, And have scattered your favors to the strangers under every leafy tree, And you have not obeyed My voice,’ declares the Lord.
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1 Kings 3 2
The people were still sacrificing on the high places, because there was no house built for the name of the Lord until those days.