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Isa. 57:5 KJV (With Strong’s)

Enflaming yourselves ρwith idolsk under every green tree, slayingl the children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks?

or, among the oaks,

Isa. 1:29• ²⁹For they shall be ashamed of the terebinths which ye desired, and ye shall blush for the gardens that ye have chosen. (Isa. 1:29)

2 Kings 17:10• ¹⁰And they set them up columns and Asherahs on every high hill and under every green tree; (2 Kings 17:10)

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2 Kings 16:3‑4• ³but walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and even caused his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the nations that Jehovah had dispossessed from before the children of Israel.
⁴And he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree. (2 Kings 16:3‑4)

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Cross References

Inflaming.

Ex. 32:6• ⁶And they rose up early on the morrow, and offered up burnt-offerings, and brought peace-offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to sport. (Ex. 32:6)

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Num. 25:1‑2,6• ¹And Israel abode in Shittim; and the people began to commit fornication with the daughters of Moab.
²And they invited the people to the sacrifices of their gods; and the people ate, and bowed down to their gods.
⁶And behold, a man of the children of Israel came and brought a Midianitish woman to his brethren, in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of the whole assembly of the children of Israel, who were weeping before the entrance of the tent of meeting. (Num. 25:1‑2,6)

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Jer. 50:38• ³⁸A drought is upon her waters; and they shall be dried up: for it is the land of graven images, and they are mad upon their idols. (Jer. 50:38)

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Jer. 51:7• ⁷Babylon hath been a golden cup in Jehovah's hand, that made all the earth drunken: the nations have drunken of her wine; therefore the nations are mad. (Jer. 51:7)

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Hos. 4:11‑13• ¹¹Fornication, and wine, and new wine take away the heart.
¹²My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them: for the spirit of lewdness hath caused them to err, and they have gone lewdly from under their God.
¹³They sacrifice on the tops of the mountains, and offer incense on the hills, under the oak and the poplar and the terebinth, because their shade is good therefore your daughters commit lewdness, and your daughters-in-law commit adultery: (Hos. 4:11‑13)

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Hos. 7:4‑7• ⁴They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, who ceaseth from raising after he hath kneaded the dough, until it be leavened.
⁵In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners.
⁶For they have made ready their heart like an oven, whiles they lie in wait: their baker sleepeth all the night; in the morning it burneth as a flaming fire.
⁷They are all hot as an oven, and have devoured their judges; all their kings are fallen: there is none among them that calleth unto me. (Hos. 7:4‑7)

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Amos 2:7‑8• ⁷panting after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turning aside the way of the meek; and a man and his father will go in unto the same maid, to profane my holy name.
⁸And they lay themselves down by every altar upon clothes taken in pledge, and they drink in the house of their God the wine of the condemned. (Amos 2:7‑8)

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Rev. 17:1‑5• ¹And there came one of the seven angels that had the seven bowls, and spoke with me, saying, Come hither; I will show thee the judgment of the great harlot that sitteth on [the] many waters;
²with whom the kings of the earth committed fornication, and those that inhabit the earth were made drunk with the wine of her fornication.
³And he carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness; and I saw a woman sitting upon a scarlet beast full of [the] names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
⁴And the woman was clothed with purple and scarlet, and decked with gold and precious stone and pearls, having in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the unclean things of her fornication,
⁵and upon her forehead a name written: MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF THE HARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. (Rev. 17:1‑5)

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Rev. 18:3• ³For of the wine of the fury of her fornication all the nations drank, and the kings of the earth committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth became rich by the power of her luxury. (Rev. 18:3)

with idols.

or, among the oaks.

Isa. 1:29• ²⁹For they shall be ashamed of the terebinths which ye desired, and ye shall blush for the gardens that ye have chosen. (Isa. 1:29)

under.

Deut. 12:2• ²Ye shall utterly destroy all the places wherein the nations which ye shall dispossess have served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree; (Deut. 12:2)

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1 Kings 14:23• ²³For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree. (1 Kings 14:23)

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2 Kings 17:10• ¹⁰And they set them up columns and Asherahs on every high hill and under every green tree; (2 Kings 17:10)

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Jer. 2:20• ²⁰For of old thou hast broken thy yoke, and burst thy bands; and thou saidst, I will not serve. For upon every high hill, and under every green tree, thou bowest down, playing the harlot. (Jer. 2:20)

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Jer. 3:6,13• ⁶And Jehovah said unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen what backsliding Israel hath done? She hath gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there hath committed fornication.
¹³Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against Jehovah thy God, and hast scattered thy ways to the strangers under every green tree, and ye have not obeyed my voice, saith Jehovah. (Jer. 3:6,13)

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Jer. 17:2• ²whilst their children remember their altars and their groves by the green trees upon the high hills. (Jer. 17:2)

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Ezek. 6:13• ¹³Then shall ye know that I am Jehovah, when their slain men shall be among their idols round about their altars, upon every high hill, in all the tops of the mountains, and under every green tree, and under every thick oak, the place where they did offer sweet savour to all their idols. (Ezek. 6:13)

slaying.

Lev. 18:21• ²¹And thou shalt not give of thy seed to let them pass through [the fire] to Molech, nor shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I [am] Jehovah. (Lev. 18:21)

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Lev. 20:2‑5• ²Thou shalt say also to the children of Israel, Every one of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, that giveth of his seed to Molech shall certainly be put to death: the people of the land shall stone him with stones.
³And I will set my face against that man, and will cut him off from among his people; because he hath given of his seed to Molech, so as to make my sanctuary unclean and to profane my holy name.
⁴And if the people of the land in any way hide their eyes from that man, when he giveth of his seed to Molech, that they kill him not,
⁵then I will set my face against that man, and against his family, and will cut him off, and all that go whoring after him, to commit whoredom with Molech, from among their people. (Lev. 20:2‑5)

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2 Kings 16:3• ³but walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and even caused his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the nations that Jehovah had dispossessed from before the children of Israel. (2 Kings 16:3)

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2 Kings 23:10• ¹⁰And he defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the sons of Hinnom, that no man might cause his son or his daughter to pass through the fire to Molech. (2 Kings 23:10)

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2 Chron. 28:3• ³and he burned incense in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and burned his sons in the fire, according to the abominations of the nations that Jehovah had dispossessed from before the children of Israel. (2 Chron. 28:3)

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Jer. 7:31• ³¹And they have built the high places of Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I commanded not, neither did it come up into my mind. (Jer. 7:31)

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Jer. 32:35• ³⁵And they built the high places of Baal, which are in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire unto Molech; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin. (Jer. 32:35)

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Ezek. 16:20• ²⁰Moreover thou hast taken thy sons and thy daughters, whom thou hast borne unto me, and these hast thou sacrificed unto them to be devoured. Is this of thy whoredoms a small matter, (Ezek. 16:20)

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Ezek. 20:26,31• ²⁶and I defiled them by their own gifts, in that they devoted all that opened the womb, that I might make them desolate, to the end that they might know that I am Jehovah.
³¹For when ye offer your gifts, when ye make your sons to pass through the fire, ye pollute yourselves with all your idols, even unto this day: and shall I be inquired of by you, Ο house of Israel? As I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, I will not be inquired of by you. (Ezek. 20:26,31)

J. N. Darby Translation

inflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleysc under the clefts of the rocks?

JND Translation Notes

Or "torrents."

W. Kelly Translation

inflaming yourselves among the oaksa under every green tree; slaying the children in the valleys under the clefts of the rocks?

WK Translation Notes

Or, with idols.