In the land that you are taking, destroy all the places where the people worship their gods on high mountains, on hills, and under green trees.

They built places of worship for false gods and put up stone pillars and symbols of Asherah to worship on the hills and under shady trees.

You worship the fertility gods by having sex under those sacred trees of yours. You offer your children as sacrifices in the rocky caves near stream beds.

You go to the high mountains to offer sacrifices and have sex.

At night they go to caves and tombs to consult the spirits of the dead. They eat pork and drink broth made from meat offered in pagan sacrifices.

The LORD says, "The end is near for those who purify themselves for pagan worship, who go in procession to sacred gardens, and who eat pork and mice and other disgusting foods.

Your people worship at the altars and the symbols that have been set up for the goddess Asherah by every green tree and on the hilltops

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.

I asked them: What are these high places where you go? So they have been called 'High Places' ever since.