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Pamphlet #4329

Sins for which Israel was carried into captivity.

My Hi-lite: 1 Kings 14:15  For the LORD shall smite Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water, and he shall root up Israel out of this good land, which he gave to their fathers, and shall scatter them beyond the river, because they have made their groves, provoking the LORD to anger.

2 Kings 17:10  And they set them up images and groves in every high hill, and under every green tree:
11  And there they burnt incense in all the high places, as did the heathen whom the LORD carried away before them; and wrought wicked things to provoke the LORD to anger:
12  For they served idols, whereof the LORD had said unto them, Ye shall not do this thing.

High hills = places of worship.
Images = Image H4676
îö?áä
matstse?ba?h
mats-tsay-baw'
Feminine (causative) participle of H5324; something stationed, that is, a column or (memorial stone); by analogy an idol: - garrison, (standing) image, pillar.
Groves = Do you know what the "groves" are? You should, because it is from the "groves" that we get "quick like a bunny"
and "Ishtar's fertility eggs" to roll about the church lawn! Check out the word "groves" in your Strong's Concordance. It comes from the same root word from whence we derive "Easter"!

Grove H842
àù?éøä    àù?øä
'a?she?ra?h  'a?she?yra?h
ash-ay-raw', ash-ay-raw'
From H833; happy; asherah (or Astarte) a Phoenician goddess; also an image of the same: - grove. Compare H6253.

H6253
òù?ú?øú
?ashto?reth
ash-to'-reth
Probably for H6251; Ashtoreth, the Phoenician goddess of love (and increase): - Ashtoreth.

Thou shall not plant a grove. Ref. Scripture Deut. 16:21

Scripture:   Deuteronomy 16:21  Thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees near unto the altar of the LORD thy God, which thou shalt make thee.

1 Kings 14:15  For the LORD shall smite Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water, and he shall root up Israel out of this good land, which he gave to their fathers, and shall scatter them beyond the river, because they have made their groves, provoking the LORD to anger.

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

Isaiah 17:8  And 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.

Micah 5:14  And I will pluck up thy groves out of the midst of thee: so will I destroy thy cities.
15  And I will execute vengeance in anger and fury upon the heathen, such as they have not heard.

2 Chronicles 34:4  And they brake down the altars of Baalim in his presence; and the images, that were on high above them, he cut down; and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images, he brake in pieces, and made dust of them, and strowed it upon the graves of them that had sacrificed unto them.

Deuteronomy 12:3  And 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.

2 Kings 17:10  And they set them up images and groves in every high hill, and under every green tree:
11  And there they burnt incense in all the high places, as did the heathen whom the LORD carried away before them; and wrought wicked things to provoke the LORD to anger:

1 Kings 15:13  And also Maachah his mother, even her he removed from being queen, because she had made an idol in a grove; And Asa destroyed her idol, and burnt it by the brook Kidron.
1 Kings 15:14  But the high places were not removed: nevertheless Asa's heart was perfect with the LORD all his days

2 Chronicles 15:16  And also concerning Maachah the mother of Asa the king, he removed her from being queen, because she had made an idol in a grove: and Asa cut down her idol, and stamped it, and burnt it at the brook Kidron.

Worshipping our own sexuality more then God.