...and their wicked practices 13 strengthen their bad principles. They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under...poplars and elms, because the shadow thereof [is] good : therefore your daughters shall commit whoredom, and your spouses shall commit adultery ; as they...

...or green trees were commanded to be cut down. Deut. xii. 2; xvi. 21. The antient idolaters used to " burn incense upon the hills, under oaks, and poplars, and elms ; because the shadow thereof was "good." Hos. iv. 13. In Greece we meet, in very early times, with the famous oracle of Jupiter...

...drink offering, thou hast offered a meat offering." Hosea iv. 13, " They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills under oaks,...poplars, and elms, because the shadow thereof is good :" The idolatry of the people of God is, in the language of scripture, denominated adultery and fornication....

...Hosea iv. 13, when the idolater is described as sacrificing upon the " tops of mountains," and burning incense " upon the hills, under oaks, and poplars, and elms, because the shadow thereof is good." Here it is quite plain that the practical idea designed for you and for me is the frightful wickedness...

...them to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God. 13 They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under...poplars and elms, because the shadow thereof is good : therefore your daughters shall commit whoredom, and your spouses shall commit adultery. 14 I will...

...idolatrous worship was performed, as may be inferred from the following words of the prophet Hosea, " They sacrifice upon the tops of mountains, and burn incense...upon the hills, under oaks, and poplars, and elms," Hos. iv, 13. The use of groves for religious worship is generally supposed to have been as ancient...

...classes several of these trees together in the following passage : " They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under...and poplars, and elms, because the shadow thereof is good."c Indeed, groves of this species of wood, but particularly of •lKingsxi.7. b 2 Kings xxiii....

...should love darkness rather than light, is sufficiently obvious. " They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under...because the shadow thereof is good." — Hosea iv. 13. This language of the prophet is so strongly descriptive of the conduct of the Druids, that it seems...

...every thick oak, the place where they did offer sweet savour to all their idols."6 Hosea says, " They burn incense "upon the hills, under oaks and poplars...and elms, because the shadow thereof is •good."' The oak is sometimes used as a type of strength. Amos, in speaking of what God had done for Israel,...

...them to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God. 13 They sacrifice upon the tops of the have learned thy righteous judgments. it good : therefore your daughters shall commit whoredom and your spouses shall commit adultery. 14...