GROVES

GROVES

1. Antiquity of # Ge 21:33
2. Often on tops of hills # 1Ki 14:23 Ho 4:13
3. Often used as resting places # 1Sa 22:6
4. Idols were worshipped in # De 12:2
5. Not to be planted near God’s altar # De 16:21
6. Of Canaanites, to be destroyed # Ex 34:13 De 7:5 12:3
7. FOR IDOL WORSHIP PLANTED 7a) By Ahab

   # 1Ki 16:33

7b) By Manasseh # 2Ki 21:3 7c) By Israelites # 2Ki 17:16 8) Fondness of Israel for # Jer 17:2 9) Punishment for making and serving # 1Ki 14:15 Isa 1:28,29 Mic 5:14 10) DESTROYED BY 10a) Gideon # Jud 6:25-28 10b) Hezekiah # 2Ki 18:4 10c) Asa # 2Ch 14:3 10d) Jehoshaphat # 2Ch 17:6 10e) Josiah # 2Ki 23:14 2Ch 34:3,7 11) God promised to wean Israel from # Isa 17:7,8