# אֲשֵׁרָה (asherah) Israeli respelling: a-she-rah. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew. Strong’s H842. 40 Old Testament occurrences. Asherah (or Astarte) a Phoenician goddess; also an image of the same King James renderings: grove. Compare H6253 (עַשְׁתֹּרֶת). Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/asherah-h842 ## Occurrences - [Exodus 34:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/34/13) — But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves: - [Deuteronomy 7:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/7/5) — But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their gra… - [Deuteronomy 12:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 t… - [Deuteronomy 16:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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. - [Judges 3:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/3/7) — And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and forgat the LORD their God, and served Baalim and the groves. - [Judges 6:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/6/25) — And 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 ol… - [Judges 6:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/6/26) — And 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 sa… - [Judges 6:28](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/6/28) — And 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… - [Judges 6:30](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/6/30) — Then the men of the city said unto Joash, Bring out thy son, that he may die: because he hath cast down the altar of Baal, and because he h… - [1 Kings 14:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 thei… - [1 Kings 14:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/14/23) — For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree. - [1 Kings 15:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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… - [1 Kings 16:33](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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. - [1 Kings 18:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/18/19) — Now therefore send, and gather to me all Israel unto mount Carmel, and the prophets of Baal four hundred and fifty, and the prophets of the… - [2 Kings 13:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/13/6) — Nevertheless they departed not from the sins of the house of Jeroboam, who made Israel sin, but walked therein: and there remained the grov… - [2 Kings 17:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/17/10) — And they set them up images and groves in every high hill, and under every green tree: - [2 Kings 17:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/17/16) — And they left all the commandments of the LORD their God, and made them molten images, even two calves, and made a grove, and worshipped al… - [2 Kings 18:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/18/4) — He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for… - [2 Kings 21:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/21/3) — For he built up again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, and made a grove, as did A… - [2 Kings 21:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/21/7) — And he set a graven image of the grove that he had made in the house, of which the LORD said to David, and to Solomon his son, In this hous… - [2 Kings 23:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/23/4) — And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the door, to bring forth out of the… - [2 Kings 23:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/23/6) — And he brought out the grove from the house of the LORD, without Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and s… - [2 Kings 23:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/23/7) — And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that were by the house of the LORD, where the women wove hangings for the grove. - [2 Kings 23:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/23/14) — And he brake in pieces the images, and cut down the groves, and filled their places with the bones of men. - [2 Kings 23:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/23/15) — Moreover the altar that was at Bethel, and the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had made, both that alta… - [2 Chronicles 14:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/14/3) — For 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 15:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 c… - [2 Chronicles 17:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/17/6) — And 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 19:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/19/3) — Nevertheless there are good things found in thee, in that thou hast taken away the groves out of the land, and hast prepared thine heart to… - [2 Chronicles 24:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/24/18) — And they left the house of the LORD God of their fathers, and served groves and idols: and wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem for this the… - [2 Chronicles 31:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/31/1) — Now when all this was finished, all Israel that were present went out to the cities of Judah, and brake the images in pieces, and cut down… - [2 Chronicles 33:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/33/3) — For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down, and he reared up altars for Baalim, and made groves, and wors… - [2 Chronicles 33:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/33/19) — His prayer also, and how God was intreated of him, and all his sins, and his trespass, and the places wherein he built high places, and set… - [2 Chronicles 34:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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… - [2 Chronicles 34:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 th… - [2 Chronicles 34:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/34/7) — And 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… - [Isaiah 17:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 t… - [Isaiah 27:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/27/9) — By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this is all the fruit to take away his sin; when he maketh all the stones of t… - [Jeremiah 17:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/17/2) — Whilst their children remember their altars and their groves by the green trees upon the high hills. - [Micah 5:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/micah/5/14) — And I will pluck up thy groves out of the midst of thee: so will I destroy thy cities.