Bible Dictionary: Groves: Often on Tops of Hills

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Torrey's Topical Textbook

1 Kings 14:23
For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree.
Torrey's Topical Textbook

Hosea 4:13
They sacrifice on the tops of the mountains, and burn incense on the hills, under oaks and poplars and elms, because the shadow thereof is good: therefore your daughters shall commit prostitution, and your spouses shall commit adultery.
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Library

Scenes in the Lives of the Patriarchs.
... And doubtless they often walked forth together beneath the ... Upon the hill-tops around,
were the observatories and ... with glory, and filled the groves with music ...
/.../headley/half hours in bible lands volume 2/scenes in the lives of.htm

To the Rev. Andrew Brandram
... mountains, its spreading chestnut-trees, and its groves of oaks ... hills which I have
before so often mentioned; but ... horrid squalling of cats from the tops of the ...
/.../borrow/letters of george borrow/to the rev andrew brandram 2.htm

The Cocal
... of Norantea on the highest tree-tops were here ... enlarge into a roaring tideway, dangerous,
often impassable, and ... while it bathed the palm-groves opposite with ...
//christianbookshelf.org/kingsley/at last/chapter xiii the cocal.htm

The Northern Mountains
... humming-birds were whirring round the tree-tops; the Qu ... and, if not just there, then
often enough elsewhere ... a tropic burn-side, are the peppers, groves of tall ...
//christianbookshelf.org/kingsley/at last/chapter xi the northern mountains.htm

The Iranian Conquest
... over Persia, the royal family, and the different parts of the empire, are often
mentioned in ... Altars, however, were erected on the tops of hills, in palaces ...
/.../chapter ithe iranian conquest.htm

The Power of Assyria at Its Zenith; Esarhaddon and Assur-Bani-Pal
... and takes her title from the mountain-tops which she ... upon a nation after an undue
strain, often causing its ... water, and to replant the sacred groves and the ...
/.../chapter iithe power of assyria 2.htm

The Pilgrim's Progress
... Again, He had them into His field, which He had sowed with wheat and corn; but when
they beheld, the tops of all were cut off, only the straw remained; He said ...
/.../bunyan/the works of john bunyan volumes 1-3/the pilgrims progress.htm

Tiglath-Pileser iii. And the Organisation of the Assyrian Empire ...
... by a large body of cavalry, crossed the hills of Sibak ... intervals by round or square
towers, the tops of which ... the gate of the outer wall was often surrounded by ...
/.../chapter iitiglath-pileser iii and the.htm

The Reaction against Egypt
... Egyptian artists and modern draughtsmen have often neglected it ... favourite places
of worship were the tops of mountains ... A line of low hills fringes the country on ...
/.../chapter iithe reaction against egypt.htm

A Canticle of Love
... I often used to think that if my little brothers had not gone to Heaven, I should ...
for all the beasts of the forests are mine, the cattle on the hills and the ...
/...//christianbookshelf.org/martin/the story of a soul/chapter xi a canticle of.htm

Subtopics

Groves

Groves for Idol Worship Planted by Ahab

Groves for Idol Worship Planted by Israelites

Groves for Idol Worship Planted by Manasseh

Groves of Canaanites, to be Destroyed

Groves: Antiquity of

Groves: Destroyed by Asa

Groves: Destroyed by Gideon

Groves: Destroyed by Hezekiah

Groves: Destroyed by Jehoshaphat

Groves: Destroyed by Josiah