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Wide period hilltop shrine beneath mature oak and neighboring trees, smoking small incense bowls, anonymous fully clothed worshipers; no sex or prostitution scene.
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Hosea 4:13

Under the Trees

A Charge Against the Land · Hosea 4

Story guide: Prophetic illustration grounded in the verse; national designations and metaphors are not newly narrated events.

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13On the tops of the mountains they sacrifice, and on the hills they burn incense, under oak and poplar and terebinth, because their shade is good. Therefore your daughters prostitute themselves, and your daughters-in-law commit adultery.

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