Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Groves » Often on tops of hills
For they also built for themselves high places and sacred pillars and Asherim on every high hill and beneath every luxuriant tree.
And
Because their shade is pleasant.
Therefore your daughters play the harlot
And your
Mountain » Used for idolatrous worship
Afterward you will come to the hill of God where the Philistine garrison is; and it shall be as soon as you have come there to the city, that you will meet a group of prophets coming down from the high place with harp, tambourine, flute, and a lyre before them, and they will be prophesying.
For they also built for themselves high places and sacred pillars and Asherim on every high hill and beneath every luxuriant tree.
And
Because their shade is pleasant.
Therefore your daughters play the harlot
And your
You shall utterly destroy all the places where the nations whom you shall dispossess serve their gods, on the high mountains and on the hills and under every green tree.
Then the Lord said to me in the days of Josiah the king, “Have you seen what faithless Israel did? She went up on every high hill and under every green tree, and she was a harlot there.
Oak Trees » The ancients often » Performed idolatrous rites under
Who
Under the clefts of the crags?
And you will be embarrassed at the
And
Because their shade is pleasant.
Therefore your daughters play the harlot
And your
Then you will know that I am the Lord, when their slain are among their idols around their altars, on every high hill, on all the tops of the mountains, under every green tree and under every leafy oak—the places where they offered soothing aroma to all their idols.
Poplar » A tree
And
Because their shade is pleasant.
Therefore your daughters play the harlot
And your
Then Jacob took fresh rods of poplar and almond and plane trees, and peeled white stripes in them, exposing the white which was in the rods.
Women » Wicked » Zeal of, in licentious practices of idolatry
He also broke down the houses of the male cult prostitutes which were in the house of the Lord, where the women were weaving hangings for the Asherah.
They offer sacrifices on the tops of the mountains And burn incense on the hills, Under oak, poplar and terebinth, Because their shade is pleasant. Therefore your daughters play the harlot And your brides commit adultery. I will not punish your daughters when they play the harlot Or your brides when they commit adultery, For the men themselves go apart with harlots And offer sacrifices with temple prostitutes; So the people without understanding are ruined.