2 Kings 17:9

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.

2 Kings 18:8

He defeated the Philistines as far as Gaza and its borders, from watchtower to fortified city.

Deuteronomy 13:6

“If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son or daughter, or the wife you embrace, or your closest friend secretly entices you, saying, ‘Let us go and worship other gods’—which neither you nor your fathers have known,

Deuteronomy 27:15

‘The person who makes a carved idol or cast image, which is detestable to the Lord, the work of a craftsman, and sets it up in secret is cursed.’
And all the people will reply, ‘Amen!’

Job 31:27

so that my heart was secretly enticed
and I threw them a kiss,

Ezekiel 8:12

Then He said to me, “Son of man, do you see what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the darkness, each at the shrine of his idol? For they are saying, ‘The Lord does not see us. The Lord has abandoned the land.’”

Hosea 12:11

Since Gilead is full of evil,
they will certainly come to nothing.
They sacrifice bulls in Gilgal;
even their altars will be like heaps of rocks
on the furrows of a field.

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Summary

And the children of Israel did secretly those things that were not right against the LORD their God, and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.

From the tower

Bible References

Secretly

Deuteronomy 13:6
“If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son or daughter, or the wife you embrace, or your closest friend secretly entices you, saying, ‘Let us go and worship other gods’—which neither you nor your fathers have known,
Deuteronomy 27:15
‘The person who makes a carved idol or cast image, which is detestable to the Lord, the work of a craftsman, and sets it up in secret is cursed.’
And all the people will reply, ‘Amen!’
Job 31:27
so that my heart was secretly enticed
and I threw them a kiss,
Ezekiel 8:12
Then He said to me, “Son of man, do you see what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the darkness, each at the shrine of his idol? For they are saying, ‘The Lord does not see us. The Lord has abandoned the land.’”

From the tower

2 Kings 18:8
He defeated the Philistines as far as Gaza and its borders, from watchtower to fortified city.
Hosea 12:11
Since Gilead is full of evil,
they will certainly come to nothing.
They sacrifice bulls in Gilgal;
even their altars will be like heaps of rocks
on the furrows of a field.

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