Translations
KJVPrimary
King James VersionWhilst their children remember their altars and their groves by the green trees upon the high hills.
F.O.G.Secondary
The F.O.GAs surely as their children remember, so do their altars and their Asherah-poles — beside every verdant tree, upon every lofty hill.
F.O.G.M.
F.O.G MessageTheir children remember their altars and their Asherah poles, set beside every green tree on every high hill.
BSB
Berean Standard BibleEven their children remember their altars and Asherah poles by the green trees and on the high hills.
Footnotes
The *Asherim* (אֲשֵׁרִים) were sacred poles or stylised trees associated with the Canaanite goddess Asherah, a fertility deity. Their presence under green trees on high hills is a recurring marker of syncretistic Baal worship (cf. Deut. 12:2; 1 Kgs 14:23). The verse implies that idolatry had become generational — children were taught at these shrines as naturally as one teaches Torah, making repentance structurally harder with each generation. FOG preserves 'Asherah-poles' to retain the specific cultural referent and the shock of it; FOG Message renders the same term with the traditional English plural form.
