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Deuteronomy 12:2
You shall surely destroy all the places in which the nations that you shall dispossess served their gods: on the high mountains, and on the hills, and under every green tree.
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1 Kings 14 23
For they also built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.
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Isaiah 57:5-7
you who inflame yourselves among the oaks, under every green tree; who kill the children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks?Among the smooth stones of the valley is your portion. They, they are your lot. You have even poured a drink offering to them. You have offered an offering. Shall I be appeased for these things?On a high and lofty mountain you have set your bed. You also went up there to offer sacrifice.
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Isaiah 65:4
who sit among the graves, and spend nights in secret places; who eat pig’s meat, and broth of abominable things is in their vessels;
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Ezekiel 20:28-29
For when I had brought them into the land which I swore to give to them, then they saw every high hill, and every thick tree, and they offered there their sacrifices, and there they presented the provocation of their offering. There they also made their pleasant aroma, and there they poured out their drink offerings.Then I said to them,‘ What does the high place where you go mean?’ So its name is called Bamah to this day.”’
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Jeremiah 17:2
Even their children remember their altars and their Asherah poles by the green trees on the high hills.
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Isaiah 66:17
“ Those who sanctify themselves and purify themselves to go to the gardens, behind one in the middle, eating pig’s meat, abominable things, and the mouse, they shall come to an end together,” says Yahweh.
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2 Kings 14 4
However the high places were not taken away. The people still sacrificed and burned incense in the high places.