This was doubtless made of metal, but the groves were of wood, as we learn from their being cut down, and burnt ( Judg. 6:25-26 25And 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 old, and throw down the altar of Baal that thy father hath, and cut down the grove that is by it: 26And 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 sacrifice with the wood of the grove which thou shalt cut down. Manasseh set a graven image of the grove that he had made in the temple, which Josiah removed, burnt, and ground to powder ( 2 Kings 21:7 7And 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 house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever: (2 Kings 21:7) 2 Kings 23:6 6And 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 stamped it small to powder, and cast the powder thereof upon the graves of the children of the people. (1 Kings 14:23) 2 Kings 17:10 10And they set them up images and groves in every high hill, and under every green tree: (2 Kings 17:10)). The word “grove” naturally suggests a row of trees, but that this cannot be the meaning is evident from groves being set up “under every green tree” ( 1 Kings 14:23 23For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree.
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