Deuteronomy 12:2

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Summary

Ye shall utterly destroy all the places, wherein the nations which ye shall possess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree:

Utterly

Judges 2:2

Possess

Hosea 4:13

General references

Numbers 33:52

2 Chronicles 28:4

Bible References

Utterly

But thus you shall do to them: you shall tear down their altars, and smash their sacred pillars, and hew down their Asherim, and burn their graven images with fire.

You shall not worship their gods, nor serve them, nor do according to their deeds; but you shall utterly overthrow them and break their sacred pillars in pieces.

Watch yourself that you make no covenant with the inhabitants of the land into which you are going, or it will become a snare in your midst.

“Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, ‘When you cross over the Jordan into the land of Canaan,

and as for you, you shall make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land; you shall tear down their altars.’ But you have not obeyed Me; what is this you have done?

Possess

Then it came about in the morning that Balak took Balaam and brought him up to

the high places of Baal, and he saw from there a portion of the people.

He sacrificed and burned incense on the high places and on the hills and under every green tree.

They set for themselves sacred pillars and

Asherim on every high hill and under every green tree,

The high places which were before Jerusalem, which were on the right of the mount of destruction which Solomon the king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for Milcom the abomination of the sons of Ammon, the king defiled.

Then the Lord said to me in the days of Josiah the king, “Have you seen what faithless Israel did? She went up on every high hill and under every green tree, and she was a harlot there.

When I had brought them into the land which I swore to give to them, then they saw every high hill and every leafy tree, and they offered there 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.

They offer sacrifices on the tops of the mountains
And

burn incense on the hills,

Under oak, poplar and terebinth,

Because their shade is pleasant.
Therefore your daughters play the harlot
And your brides commit adultery.

General references

then you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their figured stones, and destroy all their molten images and demolish all their high places;

He sacrificed and burned incense on the high places, on the hills and under every green tree.