New Torrey's Topical Textbook: Rev. R. A. Torrey

Groves

• Antiquity of Gen. 21:33
• Often on tops of hills 1 Ki. 14:23; Hos. 4:13
• Often used as resting places 1 Sam. 22:6
• Idols were worshipped in Dt. 12:2
• Not to be planted near God's altar Dt. 16:21
• Of Canaanites, to be destroyed Ex. 34:13; Dt. 7:5, 12:3
• For idol worship planted
  • By Ahab 1 Ki. 16:33
  • By Manasseh 2 Ki. 21:3
  • By Israelites 2 Ki. 17:16
• Fondness of Israel for Jer. 17:2
• Punishment for making and serving 1 Ki. 14:15; Isa. 1:28, 29; Mic. 5:14
• Destroyed by
  • Gideon Judg. 6:25-28
  • Hezekiah 2 Ki. 18:4
  • Asa 2 Chr. 14:3
  • Jehoshaphat 2 Chr. 17:6
  • Josiah 2 Ki. 23:14; 2 Chr. 34:3, 7
• God promised to wean Israel from Isa. 17:7, 8