Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree.
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Bible References
Built
1 Kings 3:2
The people were sacrificing at various high places because the Temple had not yet been built and dedicated to the LORD.
Deuteronomy 12:2
Be sure you destroy there all the places where the nations that you're going to dispossess serve their gods upon the high mountains and hills and under every leafy tree.
Isaiah 57:5
you who burn with lust among the oaks, under every spreading tree, who slaughter your children in the ravines, under the clefts of the rocks?
Ezekiel 16:24
"You built raised mounds and high places for yourself on every plaza.
Ezekiel 20:28
I brought them to the land that I had promised to give them. But whenever they saw any high hill and or any leafy tree, they slaughtered their sacrifices there and presented their offerings that provoked my anger. There they presented their pleasing aromas and poured out their drink offering.
Groves
Micah 5:14
I will uproot your cultic gods from you, and I will tear down your cities.
Deuteronomy 12:2
Be sure you destroy there all the places where the nations that you're going to dispossess serve their gods upon the high mountains and hills and under every leafy tree.
2 Kings 17:9
The Israelis practiced secret things that were not right, offending the LORD their God. In addition, they built high places for use by all their towns, watchtowers, and fortified cities.
2 Kings 21:3
He rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed. He erected altars for Baal, crafted an Asherah, just as King Ahab of Israel had done, and worshipped and served the stars of heaven.
2 Chronicles 28:4
He sacrificed and burned incense on high places, on the top of hills, and under every green tree.
Jeremiah 17:2
When their sons remember, they remember their altars and their Asherah poles beside green trees on the high hills.
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Isaiah 57:5
you who burn with lust among the oaks, under every spreading tree, who slaughter your children in the ravines, under the clefts of the rocks?
Jeremiah 3:13
"Only acknowledge your iniquity, that you have rebelled against the LORD your God, and have scattered your favors to strangers under every green tree. But you haven't obeyed me,' declares the LORD.