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Torrey's New Topical Textbook

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• Genesis 21:33 OT

  Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and called there on the name of Yahweh, the Everlasting God.

• 1 Kings 14:23 OT

  For they also built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.

• Hosea 4:13 OT

  They sacrifice on the tops of the mountains, and burn incense on the hills, under oaks and poplars and terebinths, because its shade is good. Therefore your daughters play the prostitute, and your brides commit adultery.

• 1 Samuel 22:6 OT

  Saul heard that David was discovered, with the men who were with him. Now Saul was sitting in Gibeah, under the tamarisk tree in Ramah, with his spear in his hand, and all his servants were standing around him.

• Deuteronomy 12:2 OT

  You shall surely destroy all the places in which the nations that you shall dispossess served their gods: on the high mountains, and on the hills, and under every green tree.

• Deuteronomy 16:21 OT

  You shall not plant for yourselves an Asherah of any kind of tree beside Yahweh your God’s altar, which you shall make for yourselves.

• Exodus 34:13 OT

  but you shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and you shall cut down their Asherah poles;

• Deuteronomy 7:5 OT

  But you shall deal with them like this: you shall break down their altars, dash their pillars in pieces, cut down their Asherah poles, and burn their engraved images with fire.

• Deuteronomy 12:3 OT

  You shall break down their altars, dash their pillars in pieces, and burn their Asherah poles with fire. You shall cut down the engraved images of their gods. You shall destroy their name out of that place.

• 1 Kings 16:33 OT

  Ahab made the Asherah; and Ahab did more yet to provoke Yahweh, the God of Israel, to anger than all the kings of Israel who were before him.

• 2 Kings 21:3 OT

  For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he raised up altars for Baal, and made an Asherah, as Ahab king of Israel did, and worshiped all the army of the sky, and served them.

• 2 Kings 17:16 OT

  They abandoned all the commandments of Yahweh their God, and made molten images for themselves, even two calves, and made an Asherah, and worshiped all the army of the sky, and served Baal.

• Jeremiah 17:2 OT

  Even their children remember their altars and their Asherah poles by the green trees on the high hills.

• 1 Kings 14:15 OT

  For Yahweh will strike Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water; and he will root up Israel out of this good land which he gave to their fathers, and will scatter them beyond the River, because they have made their Asherah poles, provoking…

• Isaiah 1:28 OT

  But the destruction of transgressors and sinners shall be together, and those who forsake Yahweh shall be consumed.

• Isaiah 1:29 OT

  For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which you have desired, and you shall be confounded for the gardens that you have chosen.

• Micah 5:14 OT

  I will uproot your Asherah poles out from among you; and I will destroy your cities.

• Judges 6:25-28 OT

  That same night, Yahweh said to him, “Take your father’s bull, even the second bull seven years old, and throw down the altar of Baal that your father has, and cut down the Asherah that is by it. Then build an altar to Yahweh your God on…

• 2 Kings 18:4 OT

  He removed the high places, and broke the pillars, and cut down the Asherah. He also broke in pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made, because in those days the children of Israel burned incense to it; and he called it Nehushtan.

• 2 Chronicles 14:3 OT

  for he took away the foreign altars and the high places, broke down the pillars, cut down the Asherah poles,

• 2 Chronicles 17:6 OT

  His heart was lifted up in the ways of Yahweh. Furthermore, he took away the high places and the Asherah poles out of Judah.

• 2 Kings 23:14 OT

  He broke in pieces the pillars, cut down the Asherah poles, and filled their places with men’s bones.

• 2 Chronicles 34:3 OT

  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, the Asherah poles, the engraved images,…

• 2 Chronicles 34:7 OT

  He broke down the altars, and beat the Asherah poles and the engraved images into powder, and cut down all the incense altars throughout all the land of Israel, then returned to Jerusalem.