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Gardens » Often used for » Idolatrous worship
to My face,
sacrificing in gardens,
burning incense on bricks,
you desired,
and you will be embarrassed because of the gardens
you have chosen.
Groves » Forbidden to be established
and the result of the removal of his sin will be this:
when he makes all the altar stones
like crushed bits of chalk,
no Asherah poles or incense altars will remain standing.
“Do not set up an Asherah of any kind of wood next to the altar you will build for the Lord your God,
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and demolish your cities.
you desired,
and you will be embarrassed because of the gardens
you have chosen.
They will not look to the altars they made with their hands or to the Asherahs and incense altars they made with their fingers.
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Groves » Punishment for making and serving
For the Lord will strike Israel and the people will shake as a reed shakes in water. He will uproot Israel from this good soil that He gave to their ancestors. He will scatter them beyond the Euphrates because they made their Asherah poles, provoking the Lord.
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But both rebels and sinners will be destroyed, and those who abandon the Lord will perish. Indeed, they will be ashamed of the sacred trees you desired, and you will be embarrassed because of the gardens you have chosen.
Oak Trees » The ancients often » Performed idolatrous rites under
under every green tree,
who slaughter children in the wadis
below the clefts of the rocks?
you desired,
and you will be embarrassed because of the gardens
you have chosen.
and they burn offerings on the hills,
and under oaks, poplars, and terebinths,
because their shade is pleasant.
And so your daughters act promiscuously
and your daughters-in-law commit adultery.
You will all know that I am Yahweh when their slain lie among their idols around their altars, on every high hill, on all the mountaintops, and under every green tree and every leafy oak—the places where they offered pleasing aromas to all their idols.
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Trees » Varieties » Oaks
Absalom was riding on his mule when he happened to meet David’s soldiers. When the mule went under the tangled branches of a large oak tree, Absalom’s head was caught fast in the tree. The mule under him kept going, so he was suspended in midair.
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Then they gave Jacob all their foreign gods and their earrings, and Jacob hid them under the oak near Shechem.
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The Angel of the Lord came, and He sat under the oak that was in Ophrah, which belonged to Joash, the Abiezrite. His son Gideon was threshing wheat in the wine vat in order to hide it from the Midianites.
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you desired,
and you will be embarrassed because of the gardens
you have chosen.
it will be burned again.
Like the terebinth or the oak
that leaves a stump when felled,
the holy seed
He followed the man of God and found him sitting under an oak tree. He asked him, “Are you the man of God who came from Judah?”
“I am,” he said. Verse Concepts
“I am,” he said. Verse Concepts
Joshua recorded these things in the book of the law of God; he also took a large stone and set it up there under the oak next to the sanctuary of the Lord.
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