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Passages on this topic · 28

• Deuteronomy 16:21

  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.

• Judges 3:7

  The children of Israel did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and forgot Yahweh their God, and served the Baals and the Asheroth.

• Judges 6:28

  When the men of the city arose early in the morning, behold, the altar of Baal was broken down, and the Asherah was cut down that was by it, and the second bull was offered on the altar that was built.

• 1 Kings 14:15

  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 Yahweh to anger.

• 1 Kings 14:23

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

• 1 Kings 15:13

  He also removed Maacah his mother from being queen, because she had made an abominable image for an Asherah. Asa cut down her image and burned it at the brook Kidron.

• 1 Kings 18:19

  Now therefore send, and gather to me all Israel to Mount Carmel, and four hundred fifty of the prophets of Baal, and four hundred of the prophets of the Asherah, who eat at Jezebel’s table.”

• 2 Kings 13:6

  Nevertheless they didn’t depart from the sins of the house of Jeroboam, with which he made Israel to sin, but walked in them; and the Asherah also remained in Samaria.)

• 2 Kings 17:10

  and they set up for themselves pillars and Asherah poles on every high hill, and under every green tree;

• 2 Kings 17:16

  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.

• 2 Kings 18:4

  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 Kings 21:3

  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 21:4

  He built altars in Yahweh’s house, of which Yahweh said, “I will put my name in Jerusalem.”

• 2 Kings 21:5

  He built altars for all the army of the sky in the two courts of Yahweh’s house.

• 2 Kings 21:6

  He made his son to pass through the fire, practiced sorcery, used enchantments, and dealt with those who had familiar spirits, and with wizards. He did much evil in Yahweh’s sight, to provoke him to anger.

• 2 Kings 21:7

  He set the engraved image of Asherah that he had made in the house of which Yahweh said to David and to Solomon his son, “In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name forever;

• 2 Kings 23:14

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

• 2 Chronicles 14:3

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

• 2 Chronicles 17:6

  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 Chronicles 19:3

  Nevertheless there are good things found in you, in that you have put away the Asheroth out of the land, and have set your heart to seek God.”

• 2 Chronicles 24:18

  They abandoned the house of Yahweh, the God of their fathers, and served the Asherah poles and the idols, so wrath came on Judah and Jerusalem for this their guiltiness.

• 2 Chronicles 34:3

  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, and the molten images.

• 2 Chronicles 34:4

  They broke down the altars of the Baals in his presence; and he cut down the incense altars that were on high above them. He broke the Asherah poles, the engraved images, and the molten images in pieces, made dust of them, and scattered it on the graves of those who had sacrificed to them.

• Isaiah 1:29

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

• Isaiah 17:8

  They will not look to the altars, the work of their hands; neither shall they respect that which their fingers have made, either the Asherah poles, or the incense altars.

• Isaiah 27:9

  Therefore by this the iniquity of Jacob will be forgiven, and this is all the fruit of taking away his sin: that he makes all the stones of the altar as chalk stones that are beaten in pieces, so that the Asherah poles and the incense altars shall rise no more.

• Jeremiah 17:2

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

• Micah 5:14

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