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And turning their backs on all the orders which the Lord had given them, they made for themselves images of metal, and the image of Asherah, worshipping all the stars of heaven and becoming servants to Baal. Verse ConceptsPagan GodsAstrologyBowingCalvesHost Of HeavenSculptureStarsGolden CalvesForsaking God's ThingsTwo AnimalsServing Asherah

And he would not let Maacah his mother be queen, because she had made a disgusting image for Asherah; and Asa had the image cut down and burned by the stream Kidron. Verse ConceptsFalse GodsGrandparentsQueensDestruction Of Satan's WorksBurning Idolatrous ThingsDeposingServing AsherahGrandmothersgrandmas

Now send, and get Israel together before me at Mount Carmel, with the four hundred and fifty prophets of Baal who get their food at Jezebel's table. Verse ConceptsFalse GodsSchool Of ProphetsTablesAssembling IsraelFour To Five HundredFour And Five HundredFollowers Of BaalProphets Of Other GodsServing Asherahjezebel

And the children of Israel did evil in the eyes of the Lord, and put out of their minds the Lord their God, and became servants to the Baals and the Astartes. Verse ConceptsForgettingBaal Worship, HistorySuccessServing AsherahGod's People Sinning

And even now the hand of the Lord has come down on Israel, shaking it like a river-grass in the water; and, uprooting Israel from this good land, which he gave to their fathers, he will send them this way and that on the other side of the River; because they have made for themselves images, moving the Lord to wrath. Verse ConceptsFalse Godsdispersion, theReedsRootsGod Scattering IsraelGod Beating PeopleGod ShakingBeyond The EuphratesServing Asherah

For they made high places and upright stones and wood pillars on every high hill and under every green tree; Verse ConceptsHillsSacred PlacesPolytheismObelisksServing Asherah

But still they did not give up the sin of Jeroboam, which he made Israel do, but went on with it; and there was an image of Asherah in Samaria.) Verse ConceptsServing Asherah

They put up pillars of stone and wood on every high hill and under every green tree: Verse ConceptsHillsShrinesStonesObelisksServing AsherahWorship At Trees

He put up again the high places which had been pulled down by Hezekiah his father; he made altars for Baal, and an Asherah, as Ahab, king of Israel, had done; he was a worshipper and servant of all the stars of heaven. And he put up altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, In Jerusalem will I put my name. And he put up altars for all the stars of heaven in the two outer squares of the house of the Lord. read more.
And he made his son go through the fire, and made use of secret arts and signs for reading the future; he gave positions to those who had control of spirits and to wonder-workers; he did much evil in the eyes of the Lord, moving him to wrath. He put the image of Asherah which he had made in the house of which the Lord had said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, the town which I have made mine out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my name for ever.

And they gave up the house of the Lord God of their fathers, and became worshippers of pillars of wood and of the images; and because of this sin of theirs, wrath came on Judah and Jerusalem. Verse ConceptsForsaking God's Things

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Their altars and their wood pillars under every branching tree, on the high hills and the mountains in the field. Verse ConceptsFalse GodsPeople RememberingServing AsherahWorship At Trees

In the eighth year of his rule, while he was still young, his heart was first turned to the God of his father David; and in the twelfth year he undertook the clearing away of all the high places and the pillars and the images of wood and metal from Judah and Jerusalem. Verse ConceptsChildren, Good Examples OfPurgingYouthful Devotionteenager

The stone pillars were broken to bits and the wood pillars cut down, and the places where they had been were made full of the bones of the dead Verse ConceptsStonesObelisksBones

He had the altars and the pillars of wood pulled down and the images crushed to dust, and all the sun-images cut down, through all the land of Israel, and then he went back to Jerusalem. Verse ConceptsCrushing

In the eighth year of his rule, while he was still young, his heart was first turned to the God of his father David; and in the twelfth year he undertook the clearing away of all the high places and the pillars and the images of wood and metal from Judah and Jerusalem. He had the altars of the Baals broken down, while he himself was present; and the sun-images which were placed on high over them he had cut down; and the pillars of wood and the metal images he had broken up and crushed to dust, dropping the dust over the resting-places of the dead who had made offerings to them.

But their altars are to be overturned and their pillars broken and their images cut down: Verse ConceptsAbolitionStonesDestruction Of Satan's WorksObelisks

But this is what you are to do to them: their altars are to be pulled down and their pillars broken, and their holy trees cut down and their images burned with fire. Verse ConceptsFalse GodsShrinesStonesDestruction Of Satan's WorksObelisksBurning Idolatrous Things

Their altars and their pillars are to be broken down, and their holy trees burned with fire, and the images of their gods cut down; you are to take away their names out of that place. Verse ConceptsStonesDestruction Of Satan's WorksObelisksBurning Idolatrous ThingsNames Blotted OutstatuesgenocideHinduism

So by this will the sin of Jacob be covered, and this is all the fruit of taking away his punishment; when all the stones of the altar are crushed together, so that the wood pillars and the sun-images will not be put up again. Verse ConceptsCrushingJacob, The PatriarchMineralsStonesServing Asherah

Let no holy tree of any sort be planted by the altar of the Lord your God which you will make. Verse ConceptsServing AsherahWorship At TreesChristmas Treegirlfriends

I will have your Asherahs pulled up from among you: and I will send destruction on your images. Verse ConceptsFalse GodsDestruction Of CitiesCities Under Attack

For you will be put to shame because of the trees of your desire, and because of the gardens of your pleasure. Verse ConceptsGarden, NaturaldisgraceShrinesAnimismOaksShame Of Idolatry

He will not be looking to the altars, the work of his hands, or to the wood pillars or to the sun-images which his fingers have made. Verse ConceptsFingersAltars, Pagan

And even now the hand of the Lord has come down on Israel, shaking it like a river-grass in the water; and, uprooting Israel from this good land, which he gave to their fathers, he will send them this way and that on the other side of the River; because they have made for themselves images, moving the Lord to wrath. Verse ConceptsFalse Godsdispersion, theReedsRootsGod Scattering IsraelGod Beating PeopleGod ShakingBeyond The EuphratesServing Asherah

But a common destruction will overtake sinners and evil-doers together, and those who have gone away from the Lord will be cut off. For you will be put to shame because of the trees of your desire, and because of the gardens of your pleasure.

For they made high places and upright stones and wood pillars on every high hill and under every green tree; Verse ConceptsHillsSacred PlacesPolytheismObelisksServing Asherah

They make offerings on the tops of mountains, burning perfumes in high places, under trees of every sort, because their shade is good: and so your daughters are given up to loose ways and your brides are false to their husbands. Verse ConceptsHillsTreesOaksThose Who Committed AdulterySacrificing On The High Places

But still there is some good in you, for you have put away the wood pillars out of the land, and have given your heart to the worship of God. Verse ConceptsReformationRenewed Heart

His heart was lifted up in the ways of the Lord; and he went so far as to take away the high places and the wood pillars out of Judah. Verse ConceptsDesires For HolinessHigh PlacesLoyaltyShrinesRenewed Heart

For he took away the altars of strange gods and the high places, and had the upright stones broken and the wood pillars cut down; Verse ConceptsHigh PlacesShrinesDestruction Of Satan's WorksObelisks

Let no holy tree of any sort be planted by the altar of the Lord your God which you will make. Verse ConceptsServing AsherahWorship At TreesChristmas Treegirlfriends

You are to give up to the curse all those places where the nations, whom you are driving out, gave worship to their gods, on the high mountains and the hills and under every green tree: Verse ConceptsColors, GreenHigh PlacesHillsDestruction Of Satan's WorksWorship At Trees

The same night the Lord said to him, Take ten men of your servants and an ox seven years old, and after pulling down the altar of Baal which is your father's, and cutting down the holy tree by its side, Make an altar to the Lord your God on the top of this rock, in the ordered way and take the ox and make a burned offering with the wood of the holy tree which has been cut down. Then Gideon took ten of his servants and did as the Lord had said to him; but fearing to do it by day, because of his father's people and the men of the town, he did it by night. read more.
And the men of the town got up early in the morning, and they saw the altar of Baal broken down, and the holy tree which was by it cut down, and the ox offered on the altar which had been put up there.

And the men of the town got up early in the morning, and they saw the altar of Baal broken down, and the holy tree which was by it cut down, and the ox offered on the altar which had been put up there. Verse ConceptsMorningBuilding AltarsThose Who Rose Early

And turning their backs on all the orders which the Lord had given them, they made for themselves images of metal, and the image of Asherah, worshipping all the stars of heaven and becoming servants to Baal. Verse ConceptsPagan GodsAstrologyBowingCalvesHost Of HeavenSculptureStarsGolden CalvesForsaking God's ThingsTwo AnimalsServing Asherah

And Ahab made an image of Asherah and did more than all the kings of Israel before him to make the Lord, the God of Israel, angry. Verse ConceptsFalse GodsServing Asherahjezebel

In that day a man's heart will be turned to his Maker, and his eyes to the Holy One of Israel. He will not be looking to the altars, the work of his hands, or to the wood pillars or to the sun-images which his fingers have made.

And news was given to Saul that David had been seen, and the men who were with him: now Saul was in Gibeah, seated under the tree in the high place, with his spear in his hand, and all his servants were in their places before him. Verse ConceptsTamarisk

Their altars and their wood pillars under every branching tree, on the high hills and the mountains in the field. Verse ConceptsFalse GodsPeople RememberingServing AsherahWorship At Trees

And Abraham, after planting a holy tree in Beer-sheba, gave worship to the name of the Lord, the Eternal God. Verse Conceptseternity, nature ofGod, The LordGod, Titles And Names OfGod Is Self ExistentAbraham, The Friend Of GodTamariskLiteral Planting

He put up again the high places which had been pulled down by Hezekiah his father; he made altars for Baal, and an Asherah, as Ahab, king of Israel, had done; he was a worshipper and servant of all the stars of heaven. Verse ConceptsFalse GodsFalse ReligionBowingAltars, PaganBuilding AltarsList Of Kings Of IsraelServing Asherah

He had the high places taken away, and the stone pillars broken to bits, and the Asherah cut down; and the brass snake which Moses had made was crushed to powder at his order, because in those days the children of Israel had offerings burned before it, and he gave it the name Nehushtan. Verse ConceptsAbolitionHigh PlacesLeaders, PoliticalReformationShrinesThe Bronze SnakeSnakesStonesDestruction Of Satan's WorksObelisksAbandoning IdolsBronze For IdolsMemorabilia

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