"For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree."
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Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye set up any image of stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I am the LORD your God.
Neither shalt thou set thee up any image; which the LORD thy God hateth.
Only the people sacrificed in high places, because there was no house built unto the name of the LORD, until those days.
For the LORD shall smite Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water, and he shall root up Israel out of this good land, which he gave to their fathers, and shall scatter them beyond the river, because they have made their groves, provoking the LORD to anger.
For he built up again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, and made a grove, as did Ahab king of Israel; and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.
He sacrificed also and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.
For of old time I have broken thy yoke, and burst thy bands; and thou saidst, I will not transgress; when upon every high hill and under every green tree thou wanderest, playing the harlot.
Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against the LORD thy God, and hast scattered thy ways to the strangers under every green tree, and ye have not obeyed my voice, saith the LORD.
Whilst their children remember their altars and their groves by the green trees upon the high hills.
For when I had brought them into the land, for the which I lifted up mine hand to give it to them, then they saw every high hill, and all the thick trees, and they offered there their sacrifices, and there they presented the provocation of their offering: there also they made their sweet savour, and poured out there their drink offerings.
And I will pluck up thy groves out of the midst of thee: so will I destroy thy cities.
And the children of Israel did secretly those things that were not right against the LORD their God, and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.
That thou hast also built unto thee an eminent place, and hast made thee an high place in every street.
For they made high places and upright stones and wood pillars on every high hill and under every green tree;
And they also built for themselves high places, and columns, and Asherahs on every high hill and under every green tree;
For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree.
For they also built for themselves high places, and images and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree.
For they also built them high places, and pillars, and Asherim, on every high hill, and under every green tree;
And they build -- also they -- for themselves high places, and standing-pillars, and shrines, on every high height, and under every green tree;