1 Kings 14:23

Rehoboam Reigns In Judah

²² Judah did evil in the sight of the Lord, and they provoked Him to jealousy more than all that their fathers had done, with the sins which they committed. ²³ For they also built for themselves high places and sacred pillars and Asherim on every high hill and beneath every luxuriant tree. ²⁴ There were also male cult prostitutes in the land. They did according to all the abominations of the nations which the Lord dispossessed before the sons of Israel.

Every Green Tree

Every High Hill

High Place

High Places

Under Every Green Tree

Asherah Poles

Deuteronomy 12:2

You shall utterly destroy all the places where the nations whom you shall dispossess serve their gods, on the high mountains and on the hills and under every green tree.

Isaiah 57:5

Who inflame yourselves among the oaks,
Under every luxuriant tree,
Who slaughter the children in the ravines,
Under the clefts of the crags?

2 Kings 17:9-10

The sons of Israel did things secretly which were not right against the Lord their God. Moreover, they built for themselves high places in all their towns, from watchtower to fortified city.

Ezekiel 16:24-25

that you built yourself a shrine and made yourself a high place in every square.

Leviticus 26:1

‘You shall not make for yourselves idols, nor shall you set up for yourselves an image or a sacred pillar, nor shall you place a figured stone in your land to bow down to it; for I am the Lord your God.

Deuteronomy 16:22

You shall not set up for yourself a sacred pillar which the Lord your God hates.

1 Kings 3:2

The people were still sacrificing on the high places, because there was no house built for the name of the Lord until those days.

1 Kings 14:15

“For the Lord will strike Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water; and He will uproot Israel from this good land which He gave to their fathers, and will scatter them beyond the Euphrates River, because they have made their Asherim, provoking the Lord to anger.

2 Kings 21:3-7

For he rebuilt the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he erected altars for Baal and made an Asherah, as Ahab king of Israel had done, and worshiped all the host of heaven and served them.

2 Chronicles 28:4

He sacrificed and burned incense on the high places, on the hills and under every green tree.

Jeremiah 2:20

“For long ago I broke your yoke
And tore off your bonds;
But you said, ‘I will not serve!’
For on every high hill
And under every green tree
You have lain down as a harlot.

Jeremiah 3:13

‘Only acknowledge your iniquity,
That you have transgressed against the Lord your God
And have scattered your favors to the strangers under every green tree,
And you have not obeyed My voice,’ declares the Lord.

Jeremiah 17:2

As they remember their children,
So they remember their altars and their Asherim
By green trees on the high hills.

Ezekiel 20:28-29

When I had brought them into the land which I swore to give to them, then they saw every high hill and every leafy tree, and they offered there their sacrifices and there they presented the provocation of their offering. There also they made their soothing aroma and there they poured out their drink offerings.

Micah 5:14

“I will root out your Asherim from among you
And destroy your cities.