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Groves.

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By: Reuben Archer Torrey

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Antiquity of. Gen. 21:33³³And Abraham planted a grove in Beer-sheba, and called there on the name of the Lord, the everlasting God. (Genesis 21:33).

Often on tops of hills. 1 Kin. 14:23. Hos. 4:13¹³They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and elms, because the shadow thereof is good: therefore your daughters shall commit whoredom, and your spouses shall commit adultery. (Hosea 4:13).

Often used as resting places. 1 Sam. 22:6⁶When Saul heard that David was discovered, and the men that were with him, (now Saul abode in Gibeah under a tree in Ramah, having his spear in his hand, and all his servants were standing about him;) (1 Samuel 22:6). (marg.)

Idols were worshipped in. Deut. 12:2²Ye shall utterly destroy all the places, wherein the nations which ye shall possess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree: (Deuteronomy 12:2).

Not to be planted near God's altar. Deut. 16:21²¹Thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees near unto the altar of the Lord thy God, which thou shalt make thee. (Deuteronomy 16:21).

Of Canaanites, to be destroyed. Ex. 34:13¹³But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves: (Exodus 34:13). Deut. 7:5⁵But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire. (Deuteronomy 7:5). Deut. 12:3³And ye shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their groves with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods, and destroy the names of them out of that place. (Deuteronomy 12:3).

FOR IDOL WORSHIP PLANTED

By Ahab. 1 Kin. 16:33.

By Manasseh. 2 Kin. 21:3.

By Israelites. 2 Kin. 17:16.

Fondness of Israel for. Jer. 17:2²Whilst their children remember their altars and their groves by the green trees upon the high hills. (Jeremiah 17:2).

Punishment for making and serving. 1 Kin. 14:15. Isa. 1:28, 29²⁸And the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners shall be together, and they that forsake the Lord shall be consumed. ²⁹For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired, and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen. (Isaiah 1:28‑29). Mic. 5:14¹⁴And I will pluck up thy groves out of the midst of thee: so will I destroy thy cities. (Micah 5:14).

DESTROYED BY

Gideon. Judg. 6:25-28²⁵And it came to pass the same night, that the Lord said unto him, Take thy father's young bullock, even the second bullock of seven years old, and throw down the altar of Baal that thy father hath, and cut down the grove that is by it: ²⁶And build an altar unto the Lord thy God upon the top of this rock, in the ordered place, and take the second bullock, and offer a burnt sacrifice with the wood of the grove which thou shalt cut down. ²⁷Then Gideon took ten men of his servants, and did as the Lord had said unto him: and so it was, because he feared his father's household, and the men of the city, that he could not do it by day, that he did it by night. ²⁸And when the men of the city arose early in the morning, behold, the altar of Baal was cast down, and the grove was cut down that was by it, and the second bullock was offered upon the altar that was built. (Judges 6:25‑28).

Hezekiah. 2 Kin. 18:4.

Asa. 2 Chr. 14:3³For 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 14:3).

Jehoshaphat 2 Chr. 17:6⁶And 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 17:6).

Josiah. 2 Kin. 23:14. 2 Chr. 34:3, 7³For 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. (2 Chronicles 34:3)
⁷And when he had broken down the altars and the groves, and had beaten the graven images into powder, and cut down all the idols throughout all the land of Israel, he returned to Jerusalem. (2 Chronicles 34:7).

God promised to wean Israel from. Isa. 17:7, 8⁷At that day shall a man look to his Maker, and his eyes shall have respect to the Holy One of Israel. ⁸And 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. (Isaiah 17:7‑8).

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