Parallel Verses
Amplified
As they remember their children,
So they remember [in detail] their [pagan] altars and their
Beside green trees on the high hills.
New American Standard Bible
So they remember their altars and their
By
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.
A Conservative Version
while their sons remember their altars and their Asherim by the green trees upon the high hills.
American Standard Version
whilst their children remember their altars and their Asherim by the green trees upon 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
With a diamond point it is engraved upon the tablet of their heart
And on the horns of their altars.
As they remember their children,
So they remember [in detail] their [pagan] altars and their
Beside green trees on the high hills.
O [Jerusalem] My mountain in the countryside,
I will give [to the Babylonians, as the cost of your sin] your wealth and all your treasures as plunder,
And throughout your territory, your high places of sin.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 24:18
They abandoned the house of the Lord, the God of their fathers, and served the
Jeremiah 2:20
“For long ago you broke your yoke [in deliberate disobedience]
And tore off your bonds [of the law that I gave you];
You said, ‘I will not serve and obey You!’
For on every high hill
And under every green tree
You have lain down [in idolatrous worship] like a [compliant] prostitute.
Judges 3:7
And the Israelites did evil in the sight of the Lord, and they forgot the Lord their God and served the Baals and the
2 Chronicles 33:3
For he rebuilt the [idolatrous] high places which his father Hezekiah had torn down; and he set up altars for the Baals and made the
Isaiah 1:29
For you will be ashamed [of the degradation] of the oaks in which you took [idolatrous] pleasure,
And you will be ashamed of the gardens [of passion] which you have chosen [for pagan worship].
Isaiah 17:8
And he will not have regard for the [idolatrous] altars, the work of his hands,
Nor will he look to that which his fingers have made,
Neither the Asherim (symbols of the goddess Asherah) nor the incense altars.
Jeremiah 7:18
The children gather wood, the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead the dough to make cakes for the
2 Chronicles 33:19
His prayer also and how God heard him, and all his sin, his unfaithfulness, and the sites on which he built high places and set up the Asherim and the carved images, before he humbled himself, behold, they are written in the records of the
Psalm 78:58
For they provoked Him to [righteous] anger with their high places [devoted to idol worship]
And moved Him to jealousy with their carved images [by denying Him the love, worship, and obedience that is rightfully and uniquely His].
Ezekiel 20:28
For when I had brought them into the land which I swore to give to them, they saw every high hill and every dark and leafy tree [as a place for idol worship], and there they offered their sacrifices and there they presented their offering that provoked My anger; there also they made their sweet-smelling aroma and there poured out their drink offerings.
Hosea 4:13-14
They sacrifice on the tops of the mountains
And burn incense on the hills,
Under oaks, poplars, and terebinths,
Because the shade is pleasant there.
Therefore your daughters play the prostitute
And your brides commit adultery.