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The Oak-Tree: The Ancients often: Performed Idolatrous Rites Under Isaiah 1:29

Surely you will be ashamed of the sacred oaks in which you have delighted; you will be embarrassed by the gardens that you have chosen.

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The Oak-Tree: The Ancients often: Performed Idolatrous Rites Under Isaiah 57:5

who burn with lust among the oaks, under every luxuriant tree, who slaughter your children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks?

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The Oak-Tree: The Ancients often: Performed Idolatrous Rites Under Ezekiel 6:13

Then you will know that I am the LORD, when their slain lie among their idols around their altars, on every high hill, on all the mountaintops, and under every green tree and leafy oak—the places where they offered fragrant incense to all their idols.

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The Oak-Tree: The Ancients often: Performed Idolatrous Rites Under Hosea 4:13

They sacrifice on the mountaintops and burn offerings on the hills, under oak, poplar, and terebinth, because their shade is pleasant. And so your daughters turn to prostitution and your daughters-in-law to adultery.

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