Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

As they remember their children,
So they remember their altars and their Asherim
By green trees on the high hills.

King James Version

Whilst their children remember their altars and their groves by the green trees upon the high hills.

Holman Bible

while their children remember their altars
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.

Amplified


As they remember their children,
So they remember [in detail] their [pagan] altars and their Asherim
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

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
מזבּח 
Mizbeach 
Usage: 401

אשׁירה אשׁרה 
'asherah 
Usage: 40

by the green
רענן 
Ra`anan 
Usage: 20

upon the high
גּבוהּ גּבהּ 
Gaboahh 
Usage: 37

References

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Hastings

Context Readings

The Sin Of Judah

1 Jehovah says: Judah's sin is written with an iron pen. It is engraved with a diamond point on the tablet of their hearts and on the horns (strength) (authority) of their altars. 2 As they remember their children,
So they remember their altars and their Asherim
By green trees on the high hills.
3 and on mountains in the open country. I will turn your wealth and all your treasures into loot. I will do this because of your worship sites and your sin throughout all your territory.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 24:18

The people of Judah stopped worshiping in the Temple of Jehovah God. They started worshiping idols and the symbols of the goddess Asherah. These sinful things made Jehovah God angry with the people of Judah and Jerusalem,

Jeremiah 2:20

Long ago you broke off your yoke, tore off your bonds, and said that you would not be a slave. You lay down and acted like a prostitute on every high hill and under every large tree.

Judges 3:7

The people of Israel forgot Jehovah their God. They sinned against him and worshiped the idols of Baal and Asherah.

2 Chronicles 33:3

He rebuilt the illegal places of worship that his father Hezekiah had torn down. He set up altars dedicated to other gods such as the Baals. He erected a pole dedicated to the goddess Asherah as King Ahab of Israel had done. Manasseh, like Ahab, worshiped and served the entire army of heaven.

Isaiah 1:29

You will be ashamed of the oaks that you wanted to worship. You will be embarrassed by the garden that you have chosen for your gods.

Isaiah 17:8

They will not have regard for the altars, the work of their hands, and they will not look to what their own fingers have made, either the sacred poles (Asherim) or the altars of incense.

Jeremiah 7:18

The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire. The women knead dough to make cakes for the queen of heaven. They pour out drink offerings to other gods in order to spite me.

2 Chronicles 33:19

His prayer and how God accepted it are written in the records of Hozai. The things he did before he humbled himself are also written there. This includes all his sins and unfaithfulness and the places where he built illegal worship sites and set up idols and poles dedicated to the goddess Asherah.

Psalm 78:58

They provoked him to anger (indignation) because of their illegal worship sites. They made him furious because they worshiped idols.

Ezekiel 20:28

I brought them to the land I had promised to give them. When they saw the high hills and green trees, they offered sacrifices at all of them. They made me angry by the sacrifices they burned and by the wine they brought as offerings.

Hosea 4:13-14

They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains! They burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars (storax) and the strong tree, because it has good shade. Your daughters play the harlot, and your brides commit adultery.

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