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.

Bible References

Built

1 Kings 3:2
Only the people sacrificing in heights, for there was not a house, built to the name of Jehovah even to these days.
Deuteronomy 12:2
Destroying, ye shall destroy all the places where the nations which ye possess them served there their Gods upon the high mountains, and upon the hills and under every green tree.
Isaiah 57:5
Being comforted with gods under every green tree, slaughtering the children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks?
Ezekiel 16:24
Thou wilt build to thee a brothel, and thou wilt make to thee a height in every street
Ezekiel 20:28
And I shall bring them to the land which I lifted up my hand to give, it to them, and they will see every high hill and every thick tree, and they will sacrifice there their sacrifices, and they will give there the provocation of their oblation, and they will set there the odor of their sweetnesses, and they will pour out there their libations:

Groves

Micah 5:14
And I tore up thine images from the midst of thee, and I destroyed thy cities.
Deuteronomy 12:2
Destroying, ye shall destroy all the places where the nations which ye possess them served there their Gods upon the high mountains, and upon the hills and under every green tree.
2 Kings 17:9
And the sons of Israel will cover the words not thus concerning Jehovah their God, and they will build to them heights in all their cities from the tower of those watching even to the fortified city.
2 Kings 21:3
And he will turn back and build the heights which Hezekiah his father destroyed; and he will raise up altars to Baal, and make a statue as did Ahab king of Israel; and he will worship to all the army of the heavens, and serve' them.
2 Chronicles 28:4
And he will sacrifice and burn incense in the heights, and upon the hills, and under every green tree.
Jeremiah 17:2
For their sons remember their altars and their images by the green tree upon the high hills.

Under every

Isaiah 57:5
Being comforted with gods under every green tree, slaughtering the children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks?
Jeremiah 3:13
Only know thine iniquity that thou didst transgress against Jehovah thy God, and thou wilt scatter thy ways to strangers under every green tree, and to my voice ye heard not, says Jehovah.