Ezek.20.28

Ezekiel 20:28

KJV GOD

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.

Israel’s Rebellion in the Land

Cross References

Joshua 23:3

KJV

And ye have seen all that the Lord your God hath done unto all these nations because of you; for the Lord your God is he that hath fought for you.

Joshua’s Charge to Leaders

Joshua 23:14

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And, behold, this day I am going the way of all the earth: and ye know in all your hearts and in all your souls, that not one thing hath failed of all the good things which the Lord your God spake concerning you; all are come to pass unto you, and not one thing hath failed thereof.

Joshua’s Charge to Leaders

1 Kings 14:23

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For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree.

Rehoboam Reigns in Judah

Nehemiah 9:22

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Moreover thou gavest them kingdoms and nations, and didst divide them into corners: so they possessed the land of Sihon, and the land of the king of Heshbon, and the land of Og king of Bashan.

The People Confess Their Sins

The People Confess Their Sin

Psalm 78:55

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He cast out the heathen also before them, and divided them an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.

I Will Open My Mouth in Parables

A Maskil of Asaph.

Psalm 78:57

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But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.

I Will Open My Mouth in Parables

A Maskil of Asaph.

Psalm 78:58

KJV

For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.

I Will Open My Mouth in Parables

A Maskil of Asaph.

Isaiah 57:5

KJV GOD

Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks?

God Condemns Idolatry

Isaiah 65:7

KJV GOD

Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, saith the Lord, which have burned incense upon the mountains, and blasphemed me upon the hills: therefore will I measure their former work into their bosom.

Judgments and Promises

Jeremiah 2:7

KJV GOD

And I brought you into a plentiful country, to eat the fruit thereof and the goodness thereof; but when ye entered, ye defiled my land, and made mine heritage an abomination.

Israel Has Forsaken God

Jeremiah 3:6

KJV GOD

¶ The Lord said also unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen that which backsliding Israel hath done? she is gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there hath played the harlot.

Judah Follows Israel’s Example

Jeremiah 19:13

KJV GOD

And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, shall be defiled as the place of Tophet, because of all the houses upon whose roofs they have burned incense unto all the host of heaven, and have poured out drink offerings unto other gods.

The Broken Jar

Ezekiel 6:13

KJV GOD

Then shall ye know that I am the Lord, when their slain men shall be among their idols round about their altars, upon every high hill, in all the tops of the mountains, and under every green tree, and under every thick oak, the place where they did offer sweet savour to all their idols.

A Remnant to Be Blessed

Ezekiel 16:24

KJV GOD

That thou hast also built unto thee an eminent place, and hast made thee an high place in every street.

Jerusalem’s Unfaithfulness

Ezekiel 20:29

KJV GOD

Then I said unto them, What is the high place whereunto ye go? And the name thereof is called Bamah unto this day.