Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Gardens » Often used for » Idolatrous worship
a people that provokes me to anger continually to my face; that sacrifices in gardens, and burns incense upon altars of brick;
For ye shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired, and ye shall be confounded for the groves that ye have chosen.
Groves » Forbidden to be established
Therefore, in this manner shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this shall be all the fruit, the removal of his sin; when he shall return all the stones of the altar, as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder that they may not raise up the groves, or the images of the sun.
Thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees near unto the altar of the LORD thy God, which thou shalt make thee.
And I will pluck up thy groves out of the midst of thee; so will I destroy thy cities.
For ye shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired, and ye shall be confounded for the groves that ye have chosen.
And he shall not look to the altars, the work of his hands; neither shall he look upon that which his fingers have made, either the groves or the images of the sun.
Groves » Punishment for making and serving
For the LORD shall smite Israel as a reed is shaken in the water, and he shall root up Israel out of this good land, which he had given to their fathers, and shall scatter them beyond the river because they have made their groves, provoking the LORD to anger.
And the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners shall be together, and those that forsook the LORD shall be consumed. For ye shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired, and ye shall be confounded for the groves that ye have chosen.
Oak Trees » The ancients often » Performed idolatrous rites under
inflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clefts of the rocks?
For ye shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired, and ye shall be confounded for the groves that ye have chosen.
They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and elms, that had good shade; therefore your daughters shall commit whoredom, and your daughters-in-law shall commit adultery.
Then shall ye know that I am the LORD when their slain men shall be among their idols round about their altars, upon every high hill, in all the tops of the mountains, and under every green tree, and under every thick oak, the place where they offered sweet savour to all their idols.
Trees » Varieties » Oaks
And Absalom met the slaves of David. And Absalom rode upon a mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great oak, and his head caught hold of the oak, and he was taken up between the heaven and the earth; and the mule that was under him went away.
So they gave unto Jacob all the strange gods which were in their power and all their earrings which were in their ears, and Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem.
And the angel of the LORD came and sat under the oak which was in Ophrah that pertained unto Joash, the Abiezrite, and his son Gideon threshed wheat in the winepress, to hide it from the Midianites.
For ye shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired, and ye shall be confounded for the groves that ye have chosen.
But yet in it shall remain a tenth, and it shall return and shall be razed; as the teil tree and as the oak, of which the stump remains alive when they are cut down, likewise in these his stump shall remain holy seed.
and went after the man of God and found him sitting under an oak; and he said unto him, Art thou the man of God that didst come from Judah? And he said, I am.
And Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God, and taking a great stone, he set it up there under an oak that was in the sanctuary of the LORD.