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A Conservative Version
while their sons remember their altars and their Asherim by the green trees upon the high hills.
New American Standard Bible
So they remember their altars and their
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King James Version
Whilst their children remember their altars and their groves by the green trees upon the high hills.
Holman Bible
and their Asherah poles, by the green trees
on the high hills—
International Standard Version
When their sons remember, they remember their altars and their Asherah poles beside green trees on the high hills.
American Standard Version
whilst their children remember their altars and their Asherim by the green trees upon the high hills.
Amplified
As they remember their children,
So they remember [in detail] their [pagan] altars and their
Beside green trees on the high hills.
Bible in Basic English
Their altars and their wood pillars under every branching tree, on the high hills and the mountains in the field.
Darby Translation
whilst their children remember their altars and their Asherahs, by the green trees, upon the high hills.
Julia Smith Translation
For their sons remember their altars and their images by the green tree upon the high hills.
King James 2000
While their children remember their altars and their idols poles by the green trees upon the high hills.
Lexham Expanded Bible
As the remembering of their children, [so is the remembering of] their altars and their poles of Asherah worship beside [the] leafy trees on [the] high hills.
Modern King James verseion
while their sons remember their altars and their Asherahs by the green trees on the high hills.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
that your children also may think upon your altars, woods, thick trees, high hills, mountains and fields.
NET Bible
Their children are always thinking about their altars and their sacred poles dedicated to the goddess Asherah, set up beside the green trees on the high hills
New Heart English Bible
while their children remember their altars and their Asherim by the green trees on the high hills.
The Emphasized Bible
So long as their sons remember their altars, and their Sacred Stems, By the green tree, - Upon the high hills,
Webster
Whilst their children remember their altars and their groves by the green trees upon the high hills.
World English Bible
while their children remember their altars and their Asherim by the green trees on the high hills.
Youngs Literal Translation
As their sons remember their altars and their shrines, By the green tree, by the high hills.
Interlinear
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Jeremiah 17:2
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Sin Of Judah
1 The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, [and] with the point of a diamond. It is engraved upon the tablet of their heart, and upon the horns of your altars, 2 while their sons remember their altars and their Asherim by the green trees upon the high hills. 3 O my mountain in the field, I will give thy substance and all thy treasures for a spoil, [and] thy high places, because of sin, throughout all thy borders.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 24:18
And they forsook the house of LORD, the God of their fathers, and served the Asherim and the idols. And wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem for this their guiltiness.
Jeremiah 2:20
For from old time I have broken thy yoke, and burst thy bonds. And thou said, I will not serve, for upon every high hill and under every green tree thou bowed thyself, playing the harlot.
Judges 3:7
And the sons of Israel did that which was evil in the sight of LORD, and forgot LORD their God, and served the Baalim and the Asheroth.
2 Chronicles 33:3
For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down. And he reared up altars for the Baalim, and made Asheroth, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.
Isaiah 1:29
For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired, and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen.
Isaiah 17:8
And they shall not look to the altars, the work of their hands, nor shall they have respect for that which their fingers have made, either the Asherim, or the sun-images.
Jeremiah 7:18
The sons gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead the dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink-offerings to other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.
2 Chronicles 33:19
Also his prayer, and how [God] was entreated by him, and all his sin and his trespass, and the places in which he built high places, and set up the Asherim and the graven images, before he humbled himself, behold, they are written
Psalm 78:58
For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.
Ezekiel 20:28
For when I had brought them into the land, which I swore to give to them, then they saw every high hill, and every thick tree, and they offered there their sacrifices, and there they presented the provocation of their offering. The
Hosea 4:13-14
They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and terebinths, because the shadow of it is good. Therefore your daughters play the harlot, and your brides commit adultery.