The groves (asherim) here spoken of were not trees, but wooden pillars set up for idolatrous purposes. An eshel, and not an asherah, is what Abraham (Genesis 21 and Genesis 33) planted in Beer-sheba. -H.
1 Kings 14:22-23 — "And Judah did evil in the sight of the LORD, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they had committed, above all that their fathers had done."...cont.
1 Kings 16:33 — "And Ahab made a grove; and Ahab did more to provoke the LORD God of Israel to anger than all the kings of Israel that were before him."
2 Kings 13:6 — "Nevertheless they departed not from the sins of the house of Jeroboam, who made Israel sin, but walked therein: and there remained the grove also in Samaria.)"
2 Kings 16:4 — "And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree."
2 Kings 17:10-11 — "And they set them up images and groves in every high hill, and under every green tree:"...cont.
2 Kings 21:7 — "And he set a graven image of the grove that he had made in the house, of which the LORD said to David, and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever:"
2 Kings 23:6 — "And he brought out the grove from the house of the LORD, without Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and stamped it small to powder, and cast the powder thereof upon the graves of the children of the people."
2 Chr. 24:18 — "And they left the house of the LORD God of their fathers, and served groves and idols: and wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem for this their trespass."
2 Chr. 28:4 — "He sacrificed also and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree."
Jer. 17:1-2 — "The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond: it is graven upon the table of their heart, and upon the horns of your altars;"...cont.
Ezek. 20:28 — "For when I had brought them into the land, for the which I lifted up mine hand to give it to them, then they saw every high hill, and all the thick trees, and they offered there their sacrifices, and there they presented the provocation of their offering: there also they made their sweet savour, and poured out there their drink offerings."
