high places/ shrines

02-EXO/23.usfm

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 \v 23 My angel will go before you and bring you to the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hivites, and the Jebusites. I will destroy them.
-\v 24 You must not bow down to their gods, worship them, or do as they do. Instead, you must completely overthrow them and smash their sacred stone pillars in pieces.
+\v 24 You must not bow down to their gods, worship them, or do as they do. Instead, you must completely overthrow them and smash their stone pillars in pieces.
 \v 25 You must worship me, Yahweh your God. If you do, I will bless your bread and water. I will remove sickness from among you.
 
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02-EXO/34.usfm

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 \v 12 Be careful not to make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going, or they will become a trap among you.
-\v 13 Instead, you must break down their altars, smash their sacred stone pillars, and cut down their Asherah poles.
+\v 13 Instead, you must break down their altars, smash their stone pillars, and cut down their Asherah poles.
 \v 14 For you must worship no other god, for I, Yahweh, whose name is 'Jealous,' am a jealous God.
  
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05-DEU/07.usfm

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 \v 4 For they will turn away your sons from following me, so that they may worship other gods. So the anger of Yahweh will be kindled against you, and he will destroy you quickly.
-\v 5 This is how you will deal with them: you will break down their altars, dash their sacred stone pillars in pieces, cut down their Asherah poles, and burn their cast idols.
+\v 5 This is how you will deal with them: you will break down their altars, dash their stone pillars in pieces, cut down their Asherah poles, and burn their cast idols.
  
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05-DEU/12.usfm

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 \v 2 You will surely destroy all the places where the nations that you will dispossess worshiped their gods, on the high mountains, on the hills, and under every green tree;
  
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-\v 3 and you will break down their altars, dash in pieces their sacred stone pillars, and burn their Asherah poles; you will cut down the carved figures of their gods and destroy their name out of that place.
+\v 3 and you will break down their altars, dash in pieces their stone pillars, and burn their Asherah poles; you will cut down the carved figures of their gods and destroy their name out of that place.
 \v 4 You will not worship Yahweh your God like that.
  
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11-1KI/03.usfm

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-\v 4 The king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there, for that was the great shrine. Solomon offered a thousand burnt offerings on that altar.
+\v 4 The king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there, for that was the great high place there. Solomon offered a thousand burnt offerings on that altar.
 \v 5 Yahweh appeared at Gibeon to Solomon in a dream by night; he said, "Ask! What should I give you?"
 
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11-1KI/11.usfm

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 \v 6 Solomon did what was evil in the sight of Yahweh; he did not fully follow Yahweh, as David his father had done.
 
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-\v 7 Then Solomon built a shrine for Chemosh, the disgusting idol of Moab, on a hill east of Jerusalem, and also for Molech, the disgusting idol of the people of Ammon.
+\v 7 Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh, the disgusting idol of Moab, on a hill east of Jerusalem, and also for Molech, the disgusting idol of the people of Ammon.
 \v 8 He also built high places for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods at them.
 
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12-2KI/10.usfm

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 \v 25 So then as soon Jehu finished offering the burnt offering, he said to the guard and to the captains, "Go in and kill them. Let no one come out." So they killed them with the edge of the sword, and the guard and the captains threw them out and went into the inner room of the house of Baal.
-\v 26 And they dragged out the sacred stone pillars that were in the house of Baal, and they burned them.
+\v 26 And they dragged out the stone pillars that were in the house of Baal, and they burned them.
 \v 27 They broke down the pillar of Baal, and destroyed the house of Baal and made it a latrine, which it is to this day.
 \v 28 That is how Jehu destroyed Baal and removed its worship from Israel.
 

12-2KI/14.usfm

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 \v 3 He did what was right in the eyes of Yahweh, yet not like David his father. He did everything that Joash, his father, had done.
 
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-\v 4 But the shrines were not taken away. The people still sacrificed and burned incense at the shrines.
+\v 4 But the high places were not taken away. The people still sacrificed and burned incense at the high places.
 \v 5 It came about that as soon as his rule was well established, he killed the servants who had murdered his father, the king.
  
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12-2KI/17.usfm

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 \v 9 The people of Israel did secretly—against Yahweh their God—things that were not right. They built for themselves high places in all their cities, from the watchtower to the fortress.
-\v 10 They also set up sacred stone pillars and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.
+\v 10 They also set up stone pillars and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.
 
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-\v 11 There they burned incense in all the shrines, as the nations had done, those whom Yahweh had carried away before them. The Israelites performed wicked things to provoke Yahweh to anger;
+\v 11 There they burned incense in all the high places, as the nations had done, those whom Yahweh had carried away before them. The Israelites performed wicked things to provoke Yahweh to anger;
 \v 12 they worshiped idols, about which Yahweh had said to them, "You will not do this thing."
 
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 \v 28 So one of the priests whom they had carried away from Samaria came and lived in Bethel; he taught them how they should honor Yahweh.
 
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-\v 29 Every ethnic group made gods of their own, and put them in the shrines that the Samaritans had made - every ethnic group in the cities where they lived.
+\v 29 Every ethnic group made gods of their own, and put them in the high places that the Samaritans had made—every ethnic group in the cities where they lived.
 \v 30 The people of Babylon made Succoth Benoth; the people of Cuthah made Nergal; the people of Hamath made Ashima;
 \v 31 the Awites made Nibhaz and Tartak; and the Sepharvites burned their children in the fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of the Sepharvites.
 
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-\v 32 They also honored Yahweh, and appointed from among themselves priests of the high places, who sacrificed for them in the temples at the shrines.
+\v 32 They also honored Yahweh, and appointed from among themselves priests of the high places, who sacrificed for them in the temples at the high places.
 \v 33 They honored Yahweh and also worshiped their own gods, in the customs of the nations from among whom they had been taken away.
 
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12-2KI/18.usfm

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 \v 3 He did what was right in the eyes of Yahweh, following the example of all that David, his ancestor, had done.
 
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-\v 4 He removed the high places, destroyed the sacred stone pillars, and cut down the Asherah poles. He broke to pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made, because in those days the people of Israel were burning incense to it; it was called "Nehushtan."
+\v 4 He removed the high places, destroyed the stone pillars, and cut down the Asherah poles. He broke to pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made, because in those days the people of Israel were burning incense to it; it was called "Nehushtan."
 \v 5 Hezekiah trusted in Yahweh, the God of Israel, so that after him there was no one like him among all the kings of Judah, nor among the kings who were before him.
 
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14-2CH/17.usfm

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 \v 5 So Yahweh established the rule in his hand; all Judah brought tribute to Jehoshaphat. He had riches and honor in abundance.
-\v 6 His heart was fixed on Yahweh's ways. He also took the high places and the Asherah poles out of Judah.
+\v 6 His heart was committed to Yahweh's ways. He also removed the high places and the Asherah poles from Judah.
  
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23-ISA/44.usfm

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 \v 13 The carpenter measures the wood with a line, and marks it with a stylus. 
 \q1 He shapes it with his tools and marks it out with a compass. 
-\q1 He shapes it after the figure of a man, like an attractive human, so it may stay in a shrine.
+\q1 He shapes it after the figure of a man, like an attractive human, so it may stay in a house.
 
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26-EZK/16.usfm

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 \v 23 Woe! Woe to you!—this is the Lord Yahweh's declaration—therefore, in addition to all this wickedness, 
-\v 24 you built yourself a ritual place, and have made a shrine in every public place.
+\v 24 you built yourself a ritual place, and have made a vaulted chamber in every public place.
 
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 \v 25 You built your high place at the head of every road and desecrated your beauty, for you offering your body to every one who passed by and you performed many more acts of prostitution.

28-HOS/10.usfm

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 \q As his fruit increased,
 \q the more altars he built.
 \q As his land produced more,
-\q he improved his sacred pillars.
+\q he improved his pillars.
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 \v 2 Their heart is deceitful;
 \q now they must bear their guilt.
 \q Yahweh will demolish their altars;
-\q he will destroy their sacred pillars.
+\q he will destroy their pillars.
 
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