Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and elms, because the shadow thereof is good: therefore your daughters shall commit whoredom, and your spouses shall commit adultery.

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Bible References

Sacrifice

Isaiah 1:29
For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which you have desired, and you shall be ashamed for the gardens which you have chosen.
Isaiah 57:5
being inflamed with idols under every green tree, killing the little sons in the valleys under the clefts of the rocks?
Jeremiah 3:6
Jehovah also said to me in the days of Josiah the king, Have you seen that which backsliding Israel has done? She has gone up on every high mountain and under every green tree, and has fornicated there.
Ezekiel 6:13
Then you shall know that I am Jehovah, when their dead shall be among their idols all around their altars, on every high hill, in all the tops of the mountains, and under every green tree, and under every leafy oak, the place where they offered sweet aroma to all their idols.
Ezekiel 16:16
And you took from your clothes and adorned your high places with different colors, and fornicated on them, such as had not come, nor shall be.
Ezekiel 20:28
When I had brought them into the land for which I lifted up My hand to give it to them, then they saw every high hill, and all the thick trees, and they offered their sacrifices there. And there they offered their provoking gifts. There also they made their sweet aroma, and poured out their drink offerings there.

Therefore

2 Samuel 12:10
And therefore, the sword shall never depart from your house, because you have despised Me and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.
Job 31:9
If my heart has been enticed by a woman, or I have laid wait at my neighbor's door,
Amos 7:17
So Jehovah says this: Your wife shall be a harlot in the city, and your sons and your daughters shall fall by the sword, and your land shall be divided by line. And you shall die in a defiled land; and Israel shall surely go into exile out of his land.
Romans 1:23
and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man, and birds, and four-footed animals, and creeping things.

General references

Proverbs 5:9
lest you give your honor to others and your years to the cruel;