Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
And they gave unto Jacob all the strange gods which were in their hand, and all their earrings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem.
The oak
Bible References
Hid them
Exodus 32:20
And he took the bull calf that they had made, and he burned [it] with the fire, and he crushed [it] until it became fine, and he scattered [it] on the surface of the water, and he made the {Israelites} drink.
Deuteronomy 7:5
But this is what you must do to them: you shall break down their altars, and their stone pillars you shall smash, and their Asherah poles you shall hew down, and you shall burn their idols with fire.
Isaiah 2:20
On that day humanity will throw away its idols of silver and its idols of gold, which they made for it to worship, to the rodents and to the bats--
Isaiah 30:22
And you will defile the plating of your silver idols and the covering of your gold image. You will scatter them like contaminated things; you will say to it, "Filth!"
The oak
Joshua 24:25
So Joshua {made a covenant} with the people on that day, and he established for them a statute and a judgment at Shechem.
Judges 9:6
All the lords of Shechem and Beth-Millo gathered, and they went and made Abimelech as king, near [the] oak of [the] pillar that [is] at Shechem.