Deuteronomy 12:2
12:2 You must by all means destroy
all the places where the nations you are about to dispossess worship their gods – on the high mountains and hills and under every leafy tree.
Deuteronomy 12:1
The Central Sanctuary
12:1 These are the statutes and ordinances you must be careful to obey as long as you live in the land the Lord, the God of your ancestors, has given you to possess.
Deuteronomy 14:23
14:23 In the presence of the
Lord your God you must eat from the tithe of your grain, your new wine,
your olive oil, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks in the place he chooses to locate his name, so that you may learn to revere the
Lord your God always.
Deuteronomy 14:2
14:2 For you are a people holy
to the
Lord your God. He
has chosen you to be his people, prized
above all others on the face of the earth.
Deuteronomy 16:3-4
16:3 You must not eat any yeast with it; for seven days you must eat bread made without yeast, symbolic of affliction, for you came out of Egypt hurriedly. You must do this so you will remember for the rest of your life the day you came out of the land of Egypt.
16:4 There must not be a scrap of yeast within your land
for seven days, nor can any of the meat you sacrifice on the evening of the first day remain until the next morning.
Deuteronomy 17:10
17:10 You must then do as they have determined at that place the
Lord chooses. Be careful to do just as you are taught.
Jeremiah 2:20
The Lord Expresses His Exasperation at Judah’s Persistent Idolatry
2:20 “Indeed, long ago you threw off my authority
and refused to be subject to me.
You said, ‘I will not serve you.’
Instead, you gave yourself to other gods on every high hill
and under every green tree,
like a prostitute sprawls out before her lovers.
Jeremiah 3:6
3:6 When Josiah was king of Judah, the Lord said to me, “Jeremiah, you have no doubt seen what wayward Israel has done. You have seen how she went up to every high hill and under every green tree to give herself like a prostitute to other gods.
Jeremiah 3:13
3:13 However, you must confess that you have done wrong,
and that you have rebelled against the Lord your God.
You must confess that you have given yourself to foreign gods under every green tree,
and have not obeyed my commands,’ says the Lord.
Jeremiah 17:2
17:2 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
Ezekiel 6:13
6:13 Then you will know that I am the
Lord – when their dead lie among their idols around their altars, on every high hill and all the mountaintops, under every green tree and every leafy oak,
the places where they have offered fragrant incense to all their idols.