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
A Temple had not yet been built for Jehovah. The people were still offering sacrifices at many different altars.
Deuteronomy 12:2
Destroy all the places where the nations you dispossess serve their gods, on the high mountains and on the hills and under every green tree.
Isaiah 57:5
Are you inflaming yourselves with gods under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks?
Ezekiel 16:24
by the side of every road you built places to worship idols and practice prostitution.
Ezekiel 20:28
I brought them to the land I had promised to give them. When they saw the high hills and green trees, they offered sacrifices at all of them. They made me angry by the sacrifices they burned and by the wine they brought as offerings.
Groves
Micah 5:14
I will remove your (godess) Astarte from your midst. I will destroy your cities.
Deuteronomy 12:2
Destroy all the places where the nations you dispossess serve their gods, on the high mountains and on the hills and under every green tree.
2 Kings 17:9
The children of Israel secretly did things that were not right according to Jehovah their God. They built high places for themselves in all their towns, from the watchtower to the walled towns.
2 Kings 21:3
He built the high places that Hezekiah his father destroyed. He made altars for Baal. Then he made an Asherah as Ahab, king of Israel, had done. Manasseh was a worshipper and servant of all the stars of heaven.
2 Chronicles 28:4
He offered sacrifices and burned incense as an offering at the illegal worship sites on hills and under every large tree.
Jeremiah 17:2
Even their children remember their altars and their poles (images) dedicated to the goddess Asherah beside large trees on high hills
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Isaiah 57:5
Are you inflaming yourselves with gods under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks?
Jeremiah 3:13
Admit that you have done wrong! You have rebelled against Jehovah your God. You have given yourself to foreign gods under every large tree. You have not obeyed me,' says Jehovah.