1 Kings 14:23
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23 For they, too, built for themselves (A)high places, (B)memorial stones, and [a](C)Asherim on every high hill and (D)under every luxuriant tree.
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- 1 Kings 14:23 I.e., wooden symbols of a female deity (Asherah)
Psalm 78:58
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58 For they (A)provoked Him with their (B)high places
And (C)moved Him to jealousy with their (D)carved images.
Isaiah 57:5-7
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5 Who inflame yourselves among the (A)oaks,
(B)Under every luxuriant tree,
Who (C)slaughter the children in the [a]ravines,
Under the clefts of the rocks?
6 Among the [b](D)smooth stones of the [c]ravine
Is your portion, [d]they are your lot;
Even to them you have (E)poured out a drink offering,
You have made a grain offering.
Should I [e](F)relent of these things?
7 On a (G)high and lofty mountain
You have (H)made your bed.
You also went up there to offer sacrifice.
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- Isaiah 57:5 Or wadis
- Isaiah 57:6 I.e., symbols of fertility gods
- Isaiah 57:6 Or wadi
- Isaiah 57:6 Lit they, they
- Isaiah 57:6 Or repent
Jeremiah 3:6
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Faithless Israel
6 Then the Lord said to me in the days of King Josiah, “Have you seen what faithless Israel did? She (A)went up on every high hill and under every leafy tree, and she prostituted herself there.
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Ezekiel 6:13
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13 Then you will know that I am the Lord, when their (A)dead are among their idols around their altars, on (B)every high hill, on all the tops of the mountains, under every leafy tree and under every massive oak with thick branches—the places where they offered a soothing aroma to all their idols.
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