The people were sacrificing at the high places, because there was no house built for the name of Jehovah until those days.

You shall destroy to blot out all the places where the nations which you are dispossessing have served their gods, on the high mountains and on the hills and under every green tree.

being inflamed with gods under every green tree, slaughtering the children in the valleys under the clefts of the rocks?

that you also built for yourself a mound, and made a high place for yourself in every open place.

You built your high places at the head of every road, and made your beauty to be abhorred. You offered yourself to everyone who passed by, and multiplied your acts of harlotry.

For when I brought them into the land concerning which I had raised My hand and sworn to give it to them, and they saw all the high hills and all the thick trees, there they offered their sacrifices and provoked Me with their offerings. There they also sent up their soothing aroma and poured out their drink offerings.

Then I said to them, What is this high place to which you go? And its name is called Bamah to this day.

You shall not make idols for yourselves; neither a carved image nor a sacred pillar shall you rear up for yourselves; nor shall you set up an image of stone in your land, to bow down to it; for I am Jehovah your God.

And I will pluck your groves from your midst, and I will destroy your cities.

You shall destroy to blot out all the places where the nations which you are dispossessing have served their gods, on the high mountains and on the hills and under every green tree.

And the children of Israel secretly did things against Jehovah their God that were not right, and they built for themselves high places in all their cities, from watchtower to fortified city.

They set up for themselves sacred pillars and groves on every high hill and under every green tree.

For he rebuilt the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; he raised up altars for Baal, and made a grove, as Ahab king of Israel had done; and he bowed down to all the host of the heavens and served them.

And he built altars for all the host of the heavens in the two courts of the house of Jehovah.

And he set a graven image in the grove that he had made, in the house of which Jehovah had said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put My name forever;

And he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.

while their children remember their altars and their groves by the green trees on the high hills.

being inflamed with gods under every green tree, slaughtering the children in the valleys under the clefts of the rocks?

Only, acknowledge your iniquity, that you have transgressed against Jehovah your God and have scattered your ways to strangers under every green tree, and you have not obeyed My voice, says Jehovah.