Parallel Verses
King James Version
Whilst their children remember their altars and their groves by the green trees upon the high hills.
New American Standard Bible
So they remember their altars and their
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Holman Bible
and their Asherah poles, by the green trees
on the high hills—
International Standard Version
When their sons remember, they remember their altars and their Asherah poles beside 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
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
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Jeremiah 17:2
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Sin Of Judah
1 The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond: it is graven upon the table of their heart, and upon the horns of your altars; 2 Whilst their children remember their altars and their groves by the green trees upon the high hills. 3 O my mountain in the field, I will give thy substance and all thy treasures to the spoil, and thy high places for sin, throughout all thy borders.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 24:18
And they left the house of the LORD God of their fathers, and served groves and idols: and wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem for this their trespass.
Jeremiah 2:20
For of old time I have broken thy yoke, and burst thy bands; and thou saidst, I will not transgress; when upon every high hill and under every green tree thou wanderest, playing the harlot.
Judges 3:7
And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and forgat the LORD their God, and served Baalim and the groves.
2 Chronicles 33:3
For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down, and he reared up altars for Baalim, and made groves, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.
Isaiah 1:29
For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired, and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen.
Isaiah 17:8
And he shall not look to the altars, the work of his hands, neither shall respect that which his fingers have made, either the groves, or the images.
Jeremiah 7:18
The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.
2 Chronicles 33:19
His prayer also, and how God was intreated of him, and all his sin, and his trespass, and the places wherein he built high places, and set up groves and graven images, before he was humbled: behold, they are written among the sayings of the seers.
Psalm 78:58
For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.
Ezekiel 20:28
For when I had brought them into the land, for the which I lifted up mine hand to give it to them, then they saw every high hill, and all the thick trees, and they offered there their sacrifices, and there they presented the provocation of their offering: there also they made their sweet savour, and poured out there their drink offerings.
Hosea 4:13-14
They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and elms, because the shadow thereof is good: therefore your daughters shall commit whoredom, and your spouses shall commit adultery.