Thematic Bible: Performed idolatrous rites under
Thematic Bible
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Who are inflamed among oaks, under every green tree, Slaughtering the children in valleys, Under clefts of the rocks.
For men are ashamed because of the oaks That ye have desired, And ye are confounded because of the gardens That ye have chosen.
On tops of the mountains they do sacrifice, And on the hills they make perfume, Under oak, and poplar, and terebinth, For good is its shade.
And ye have known that I am Jehovah, In their wounded being in the midst of their idols, Round about their altars, On every high hill, on all tops of mountains, And under every green tree, and under every thick oak, The place where they gave sweet fragrance to all their idols.