Even their children remember their altars and Asherah poles by the green trees and on the high hills.
Parallel translations
- WEB Even their children remember their altars and their Asherah poles by the green trees on the high hills.
- KJV Whilst their children remember their altars and their groves by the green trees upon the high hills.
- NKJV While their children remember Their altars and their wooden images By the green trees on the high hills.
- NASB As they remember their children, So they remember their altars and their Asherim By green trees on the high hills.
- NLT Even their children go to worship at their pagan altars and Asherah poles, beneath every green tree and on every high hill.
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Quick answer
Even their children remember the idolatrous altars and Asherah poles set up by green trees on the high hills. Idolatry has so saturated the culture that it is passed down to the next generation.
Overview
The persistence of pagan worship sites, remembered even by the children, shows how thoroughly idolatry had taken root in Judah's families and land. Such inherited devotion to false gods deepened the nation's guilt. It warns that sin readily passes to the next generation and underscores the need for hearts transformed by grace, so that children may be raised to know the true God in Christ.
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- 2 Chr 24:18They abandoned the house of the LORD, the God of their fathers, and served the Asherah poles and idols. So wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem for this guilt of theirs.
- Jer 2:20“For long ago you broke your yoke and tore off your chains, saying, ‘I will not serve!’ Indeed, on every high hill and under every green tree you lay down as a prostitute.
- Judg 3:7So the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD; they forgot the LORD their God and served the Baals and the Asherahs.
- Isa 1:29Surely you will be ashamed of the sacred oaks in which you have delighted; you will be embarrassed by the gardens that you have chosen.
- 2 Chr 33:3For he rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had torn down, and he raised up altars for the Baals and made Asherah poles. And he worshiped and served all the host of heaven.
- Isa 17:8They will not look to the altars they have fashioned with their hands or to the Asherahs and incense altars they have made with their fingers.
- Hos 4:13–14They sacrifice on the mountaintops and burn offerings on the hills, under oak, poplar, and terebinth, because their shade is pleasant. And so your daughters turn to prostitution and your daughters-in-law to adultery.
- Ezek 20:28When I brought them into the land that I swore to give them and they saw any high hill or leafy tree, there they offered their sacrifices, presented offerings that provoked Me, sent up their fragrant incense, and poured out their drink offerings.
- 2 Chr 33:19His prayer and how God received his plea, as well as all his sin and unfaithfulness, and the sites where he built high places and set up Asherah poles and idols before he humbled himself, they are indeed written in the Records of the Seers.
- Ps 78:58They enraged Him with their high places and provoked His jealousy with their idols.
- Jer 7:18The sons gather wood, the fathers light the fire, and the women knead the dough to make cakes for the Queen of Heaven; they pour out drink offerings to other gods to provoke Me to anger.
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