Topic
Groves
37 passages cited, from 2 classic reference works.
These works date from 1896–1897 and are in the public domain. They reflect the Protestant scholarship of their time: their history, archaeology and dates can be out of date, and where they interpret, other traditions read the text differently. The verses are shown in the King James Version, the wording these works were written against.
The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Deuteronomy 16:21Nave · Torrey Forbidden to be established
¶ Thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees near unto the altar of the LORD thy God, which thou shalt make thee.
- 1 Kings 14:15Nave · Torrey Worshiped by Israelites
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 gave to their fathers, and shall scatter them beyond the river, because they have made their groves, provoking the LORD to anger.
- 1 Kings 14:23Nave · Torrey Worshiped by Israelites
For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree.
- 2 Kings 17:16Nave · Torrey Worshiped by Israelites
And they left all the commandments of the LORD their God, and made them molten images, even two calves, and made a grove, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served Baal.
- 2 Kings 18:4Nave · Torrey Destroyed by — Hezekiah
¶ He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan.
- 2 Kings 23:14Nave · Torrey Destroyed by — Josiah
And he brake in pieces the images, and cut down the groves, and filled their places with the bones of men.
- 2 Chronicles 14:3Nave · Torrey Destroyed by — Asa
For he took away the altars of the strange gods, and the high places, and brake down the images, and cut down the groves:
- 2 Chronicles 17:6Nave · Torrey Destroyed by — Jehoshaphat
And his heart was lifted up in the ways of the LORD: moreover he took away the high places and groves out of Judah.
- 2 Chronicles 34:3Nave · Torrey Destroyed by — Josiah
¶ For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father: and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images.
- Isaiah 1:29Nave · Torrey Forbidden to be established
For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired, and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen.
- Isaiah 17:8Nave · Torrey Forbidden to be established
And he shall not look to the altars, the work of his hands, neither shall respect that which his fingers have made, either the groves, or the images.
- Jeremiah 17:2Nave · Torrey Worshiped by Israelites
Whilst their children remember their altars and their groves by the green trees upon the high hills.
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- Micah 5:14 Nave · Torrey Forbidden to be established
- Genesis 21:33 Torrey Antiquity of
- Exodus 34:13 Torrey Of Canaanites, to be destroyed
- Deuteronomy 7:5 Torrey Of Canaanites, to be destroyed
- Deuteronomy 12:2 Torrey Idols were worshipped in
- Deuteronomy 12:3 Torrey Of Canaanites, to be destroyed
- Judges 3:7 Nave Worshiped by Israelites
- Judges 6:25–28 Torrey DESTROYED BY — Gideon
- Judges 6:28 Nave Destroyed by — Gideon
- 1 Samuel 22:6 Torrey Often used as resting places
- 1 Kings 15:13 Nave Worshiped by Israelites
- 1 Kings 16:33 Torrey FOR IDOL WORSHIP PLANTED — By Ahab
- 1 Kings 18:19 Nave Worshiped by Israelites
- 2 Kings 13:6 Nave Worshiped by Israelites
- 2 Kings 17:10 Nave Worshiped by Israelites
- 2 Kings 21:3–7 Nave Worshiped by Israelites
- 2 Kings 21:3 Torrey FOR IDOL WORSHIP PLANTED — By Manasseh
- 2 Chronicles 19:3 Nave Destroyed by — Jehoshaphat
- 2 Chronicles 24:18 Nave Worshiped by Israelites
- 2 Chronicles 34:4 Nave Destroyed by — Josiah
- 2 Chronicles 34:7 Torrey DESTROYED BY — Josiah
- Isaiah 1:28 Torrey Punishment for making and serving
- Isaiah 17:7 Torrey God promised to wean Israel from
- Isaiah 27:9 Nave Forbidden to be established
- Hosea 4:13 Torrey Often on tops of hills
In the topical indexes
Nave's Topical Bible (1896) · 24 references, grouped by sub-topic
- → Translated in R. V. as “Asherod,” “Ashera,” and “Asherim.”
- → They were symbols of the Phoenician goddess, Asherah)
- → See ASHTORETH
- → Forbidden to be established De 16:21; Isa 1:29; 17:8; 27:9; Mic 5:14
- → Worshiped by Israelites Jud 3:7; 1Ki 14:15,23; 15:13; 18:19; 2Ki 13:6; 17:10,16; 21:3-7; 2Ch 24:18; Jer 17:2
- → Destroyed by
- → See IDOLATRY
Torrey's New Topical Textbook (1897) · 26 references, grouped by sub-topic
- Antiquity of Ge 21:33
- Often on tops of hills 1Ki 14:23; Ho 4:13
- Often used as resting places 1Sa 22:6
- Idols were worshipped in De 12:2
- Not to be planted near God's altar De 16:21
- Of Canaanites, to be destroyed Ex 34:13; De 7:5; 12:3
- FOR IDOL WORSHIP PLANTED
- Fondness of Israel for Jer 17:2
- Punishment for making and serving 1Ki 14:15; Isa 1:28,29; Mic 5:14
- DESTROYED BY
- God promised to wean Israel from Isa 17:7,8
Texts: Nave's Topical Bible (1896); Torrey's New Topical Textbook (1897), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.