For they also built for themselves high places and pillars and Asherim on every high hill and under every green tree — Judah like the north constructed high places and idolatrous imagery. The phrase בָּנוּ לָהֶם בָּמוֹת וּמַצֵּבוֹת וַאֲשֵׁרִים (they built high places and pillars and Asherim) shows that southern apostasy mirrored northern idolatry. Yet the Deuteronomistic historian distinguishes: Judah's apostasy, though grave, will not bring immediate destruction as it does in the north.

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