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03-LEV/26.usfm

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 \v 29 You will be so hungry that you will kill your sons and daughters and eat their flesh.
-\v 30 I will make sure that other people destroy the shrines where you have worshiped idols. I will smash the altars where you burn incense to worship your gods, and I will cause your corpses to be piled on the lifeless figures of your idols. And I will hate you.
+\v 30 I will make sure that other people destroy the hills where you have worshiped idols. I will smash the altars where you burn incense to worship your gods, and I will cause your corpses to be piled on the lifeless figures of your idols. And I will hate you.
 
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 \v 31 I will cause your cities to become heaps of ruins, and I will cause the buildings that you built for your idols to collapse. And I will not be pleased at all with the aroma of your offerings that are burned on the altar.

11-1KI/12.usfm

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-\v 31 Moses had declared that only men from the tribe of Levi would be priests, but Jeroboam also told his workers to build various shrines, and then he appointed men who were not from the tribe of Levi to be priests.
-\v 32 They had a celebration in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day, like the celebration of living in temporary shelters that occurred in Judah each year. On the altar that they built at Bethel, he offered sacrifices to the gold statues of calves that they had made, and he stationed the priests there at the shrines that his workers had built.
+\v 31 Moses had declared that only men from the tribe of Levi would be priests, but Jeroboam also told his workers to build places on the hills where they could worship idols, and then he appointed men who were not from the tribe of Levi to be priests for the idols.
+\v 32 They had a celebration in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day, like the celebration of living in temporary shelters that occurred in Judah each year. On the altar that they built at Bethel, he offered sacrifices to the gold statues of calves that they had made, and he stationed the priests on the hills where idols were worshiped, where his workers built houses used for idolatry.
 
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 \v 33 Jeroboam went up to that altar on that day in the eighth month that he himself had chosen. There on that altar he burned incense to be a sacrifice. And he declared that the people should celebrate that festival on that same day every year.

12-2KI/15.usfm

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 \v 3 He did things that Yahweh was pleased with, as his father Amaziah had done.
 
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-\v 4 But the high places where the people continued to practice idolatry were not destroyed. They continued to burn incense as they worshiped their false gods at their shrines.
+\v 4 But the high places where the people continued to practice idolatry were not destroyed. They continued to burn incense as they worshiped their idols.
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 \v 5 Yahweh caused Azariah to become a leper. Amaziah was a leper all the remaining years that he lived. He was not allowed to live in the palace. He lived alone in a house, and his son Jotham ruled the land.
 

12-2KI/18.usfm

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 \v 21 Listen to me! You are relying on the army of Egypt. But that is like using a broken reed for a walking stick on which you could lean. It would pierce the hand of anyone who would lean on it! That is what the king of Egypt would be like for anyone who relied on him for help.
 
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-\v 22 But perhaps you will say to me, "No, we are relying on Yahweh our God to help us." I would reply, "Is he not the one whom you insulted by tearing down his shrines and altars and forcing everyone in Jerusalem and other places in Judah to worship only in front of the altar in Jerusalem?"
+\v 22 But perhaps you will say to me, "No, we are relying on Yahweh our God to help us." I would reply, "Is he not the one whom you insulted by tearing down his houses on the hills where the idols were worshiped and the altars on which you offered sacrifices, forcing everyone in Jerusalem and other places in Judah to worship only in front of the altar in Jerusalem?"
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 \v 23 So I suggest that you make a deal between you and my master, the king of Assyria. I will give you two thousand horses, but I do not think that you are able to find two thousand of your men who can ride on them!
 

14-2CH/21.usfm

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-\v 11 On the hilltops in Judah he had also built shrines to worship idols. He caused the people of Judah to stray away from Yahweh by worshiping foreign gods.
+\v 11 On the hilltops in Judah he had also built high places, where they worshiped idols. He caused the people of Judah to stray away from Yahweh by worshiping foreign gods.
 
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14-2CH/31.usfm

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-\v 1 After the festival ended, the Israelites who were there went to all the cities in Judah and smashed the stones for worshiping idols, and cut down the poles for worshiping the goddess Asherah. They destroyed the shrines and the altars of Baal throughout the tribes of Judah and Benjamin, and also in the tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh. After destroying all of them, they returned to their own cities and towns.
+\v 1 After the festival ended, the Israelites who were there went to all the cities in Judah and smashed the stones for worshiping idols, and cut down the poles for worshiping the goddess Asherah. They destroyed the high places where idols were worshiped, and the altars of Baal throughout the tribes of Judah and Benjamin, and also in the tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh. After destroying all of them, they returned to their own cities and towns.
 
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14-2CH/32.usfm

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 \v 11 Hezekiah says to you, 'Yahweh our God will save us from being defeated by the army of you.' He wants you to die from having no food or water.
-\v 12 Hezekiah is the one who told his men to get rid of that god's shrines and altars in the countryside, saying to you people of Jerusalem and other places in Judah, 'You must worship at only one altar and burn sacrifices on only that altar.'
+\v 12 Hezekiah is the one who told his men to get rid of that god's high places on the hills, and his altars in the countryside, saying to you people of Jerusalem and other places in Judah, 'You must worship at only one altar and burn sacrifices on only that altar.'
 
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23-ISA/17.usfm

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 \v 8 You will no longer seek to get help from your idols
 \q2 or worship the idols that you have made with your own hands.
 \q1 You will never again bow down in front of the poles where you worshiped the goddess Asherah.
-\q2 You will never again worship at the shrines that you have built for burning incense.
+\q2 You will never again worship at the high places that you have built to burn incense to idols.
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 \v 9 The largest cities in Israel will be abandoned, like the land that the Hiv and Amor people groups abandoned when the Israelites attacked them long ago. No people will live there.
 

23-ISA/36.usfm

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 \v 6 Listen to me! You are relying on the army of Egypt. But that is like when a man tries to walk while leaning on a broken reed for a walking stick. But it would pierce the hand of anyone who would lean on it! That is what the king of Egypt is like for anyone who relies on him for help.
-\v 7 But perhaps you will say to me that you are relying on Yahweh your God to help you. In that case, I would answer that Yahweh is the one whom Hezekiah insulted by tearing down his shrines and altars and forcing everyone in Jerusalem and other places in Judah to worship only in front of the altar in Jerusalem."
+\v 7 But perhaps you will say to me that you are relying on Yahweh your God to help you. In that case, I would answer that Yahweh is the one whom Hezekiah insulted by tearing down his high places and altars and forcing everyone in Jerusalem and other places in Judah to worship only in front of the altar in Jerusalem."
 
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24-JER/05.usfm

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 \q2 even their children have abandoned me.
 \q1 When they solemnly declare something, they ask their gods to show that what they say is true.
 \q1 I gave my people everything that they needed,
-\q2 but they often went to the shrines of their idols and committed adultery there.
+\q2 but they often went to the high places on the hills, where they worshiped their idols and committed adultery there.
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 \v 8 Just like well fed male horses neigh, wanting to mate with female horses,
 \q2 each of the men desires to sleep with his neighbor's wife.

26-EZK/43.usfm

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 \v 6 Then, while the man was standing beside me, I heard someone speak to me from inside the temple.
-\v 7 He said, "Son of man, this is my temple, the place where I sit on my throne and where I rest my feet. This is where I will live with the Israelite people forever. The Israelite people and their kings will never again disgrace me by worshiping other gods at their shrines, or by building lifeless idols of their past kings.
+\v 7 He said, "Son of man, this is my temple, the place where I sit on my throne and where I rest my feet. This is where I will live with the Israelite people forever. The Israelite people and their kings will never again disgrace me by worshiping other gods at their hilltop places of idol worship, or by building lifeless idols of their past kings.
 \v 8 Your people placed their altars near mine, and the doorposts of their temples were next to the doorposts of my temple. There was only a wall between them. And they disgraced me by the detestable things that they did. So I was angry and destroyed them.
 
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28-HOS/10.usfm

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 \v 7 The king of Samaria will die. 
 \q2 He will be like a small piece of wood that floats away down a stream.
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-\v 8 The places known for their wickedness—altars where the people worshiped idols—will all be destroyed.
+\v 8 The hilltop places known for their wickedness—altars where the people worshiped idols—will all be destroyed.
 \q2 Thorns and thistles will grow and cover all the altars that were in Samaria.
 \q2 The people will beg the mountains and say,
 \q1 "Cover us!"

30-AMO/04.usfm

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-\v 4 Go ahead: go to the shrines at Bethel and Gilgal, where many people worship me;
+\v 4 Go ahead: go to the hilltop places of idol worship that are at Bethel and Gilgal, where many people worship me;
 \q2 go and rebel more and more against me!
 \q1 Offer sacrifices on the morning after you arrive,
 \q2 and bring me a tenth of your crops the next day.

33-MIC/01.usfm

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 \q2 Yahweh our God is accusing you from his holy temple in heaven.
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 \v 3 He will come down from heaven
-\q2 and walk over the places where you worship idols.
+\q2 and walk over the high places where you worship idols.
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 \v 4 It will be as though the mountains will melt under his feet
 \q2 as wax melts in front of a fire,
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 \v 5 Those things will happen because of the terrible sins that the people of Israel, the descendants of Jacob, have committed.
 \q2 But it was the people of the city of Samaria who persuaded all the people of Israel to sin.
 \q1 And it was because the people of Jerusalem set up altars to worship their gods
-\q2 that the other people of Judah thought they should also worship idols.
+\q2 that the other people of Judah thought they should also worship idols on the hilltops.
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