Parallel Verses

International Standard Version

When their sons remember, they remember their altars and their Asherah poles beside green trees on the high hills.

New American Standard Bible

As they remember their children,
So they remember their altars and their Asherim
By green trees on the high hills.

King James Version

Whilst their children remember their altars and their groves by the green trees upon the high hills.

Holman Bible

while their children remember their altars
and their Asherah poles, by the green trees
on the high hills—

A Conservative Version

while their sons remember their altars and their Asherim by the green trees upon the high hills.

American Standard Version

whilst their children remember their altars and their Asherim by the green trees upon the high hills.

Amplified


As they remember their children,
So they remember [in detail] their [pagan] altars and their Asherim
Beside green trees on the high hills.

Bible in Basic English

Their altars and their wood pillars under every branching tree, on the high hills and the mountains in the field.

Darby Translation

whilst their children remember their altars and their Asherahs, by the green trees, upon the high hills.

Julia Smith Translation

For their sons remember their altars and their images by the green tree upon the high hills.

King James 2000

While their children remember their altars and their idols poles by the green trees upon the high hills.

Lexham Expanded Bible

As the remembering of their children, [so is the remembering of] their altars and their poles of Asherah worship beside [the] leafy trees on [the] high hills.

Modern King James verseion

while their sons remember their altars and their Asherahs by the green trees on the high hills.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

that your children also may think upon your altars, woods, thick trees, high hills, mountains and fields.

NET Bible

Their children are always thinking about their altars and their sacred poles dedicated to the goddess Asherah, set up beside the green trees on the high hills

New Heart English Bible

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

The Emphasized Bible

So long as their sons remember their altars, and their Sacred Stems, By the green tree, - Upon the high hills,

Webster

Whilst their children remember their altars and their groves by the green trees upon the high hills.

World English Bible

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

Youngs Literal Translation

As their sons remember their altars and their shrines, By the green tree, by the high hills.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
מזבּח 
Mizbeach 
Usage: 401

אשׁירה אשׁרה 
'asherah 
Usage: 40

by the green
רענן 
Ra`anan 
Usage: 20

upon the high
גּבוהּ גּבהּ 
Gaboahh 
Usage: 37

References

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Hastings

Context Readings

The Sin Of Judah

1 The sin of Judah is engraved with an iron stylus. It is inscribed with a diamond point on the tablet of their heart and on the horns of their altars. 2 When their sons remember, they remember their altars and their Asherah poles beside green trees on the high hills. 3 My mountain in the field, your wealth and your treasures I'll give as spoil; along with your high places as the price of your sin throughout your territory.


Cross References

2 Chronicles 24:18

They abandoned the LORD's Temple and the God of their fathers, and they served Asherim and idols. As a result this guilt of theirs resulted in wrath coming upon Judah and Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 2:20

"For long ago I broke your yoke and tore off your bonds, But you said, "I won't serve you!' Instead, on every high hill and under every green tree, you bend down to commit fornication.

Judges 3:7

The Israelis kept on practicing evil in full view of the LORD. They forgot the LORD their God and served Canaanite male and female deities.

2 Chronicles 33:3

He re-established the high places that his father Hezekiah had demolished, he built altars to the Baals, erected Asherim, and worshipped and served the armies of heaven.

Isaiah 1:29

They'll be ashamed of the oak trees that you desired; and you'll blush because of the gardens that you have chosen.

Isaiah 17:8

They will not look upon the altars, the products that their own fingers have made, and they will have no regard for Asherah poles or incense altars.

Jeremiah 7:18

The children gather wood, the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead dough to make cakes for the Queen of Heaven, and they pour out liquid offerings to other gods in order to provoke me.

2 Chronicles 33:19

His prayer, how God was moved by him, all of his sin and unfaithfulness, and a record of the sites where he constructed high places, erected Asherim and carved images before he humbled himself are written in the Acts of the Seers.

Psalm 78:58

they angered him with their high places and with their carved images they made him jealous.

Ezekiel 20:28

I brought them to the land that I had promised to give them. But whenever they saw any high hill and or any leafy tree, they slaughtered their sacrifices there and presented their offerings that provoked my anger. There they presented their pleasing aromas and poured out their drink offering.

Hosea 4:13-14

They offer sacrifices on the mountain tops, burning offerings on the hills, under oaks, poplars, and terebinth trees, since their shade is very good. Therefore your daughters are prostitutes and your daughters-in-law commit adultery.

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