Translations
Modern
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.
Traditional
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.
Literal
On the tops of the mountains they sacrifice, and on the hills they burn incense, under oak and poplar and terebinth, because its shade is good. In this way your daughters prostitute themselves, and your brides commit adultery.
Latin
Super capita montium sacrificabant, et super colles ascendebant thymiama; subtus quercum, et populum, et terebinthum, quia bona erat umbra ejus; ideo fornicabuntur filiæ vestræ, et sponsæ vestræ adulteræ erunt.
Original
Hebrew
English
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.
Notes
Many Canaanite religious rituals took place on mountaintops and hills. On these pagan "high places," sacred trees were often used in fertility worship (1 Kings 14:23; Jeremiah 2:20).
Israelite daughters and brides also engaged in sexual acts during the worship of Baal; their fathers and husbands possibly forced them to participate.
Theme notes and profiles
Events
- Prophecies of Hoseac. 785 BC
Glossary
Topics
Elm: General Scriptures Concerning Groves: Often on Tops of Hills Idolatry: Warnings Against, and Punishments of Idolatry: Wicked Practices of Licentiousness of Mountain used for Idolatrous Worship Poplar: A Tree The Oak-Tree: The Ancients often: Performed Idolatrous Rites Under Women: Wicked: Zeal of, in Licentious Practices of Idolatry