Deuteronomy 16:21
Thou shalt not plant any tree as an Asherah near unto the Mizbe'ach of Hashem Eloheicha, which thou shalt make thee.
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
22Neither shalt thou set thee up any matzeivah (idolatrous pillar); which Hashem Eloheicha hateth.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 7:5But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall destroy their mizbechot, and break down their matzeivot (pillars), and cut down their Asherah, + 7:5 sacred trees and burn their peselim with eish.
1 Kings 14:15For Hashem shall strike Yisroel, just as the kaneh (reed), is shaken in the mayim, and He shall uproot Yisroel out of this adamah hatovah, which He gave to Avoteihem, and shall scatter them beyond the Nahar (River), + 14:15 i.e., the Euphrates because they have made their Asherah idols, provoking Hashem to anger.
2 Kings 17:16And they forsook all the mitzvot of Hashem Eloheihem, and made them massekhah, even two agalim, and made Asheirah, and worshiped all the Tzava HaShomayim, and served Ba'al.
2 Kings 21:7And he set a pesel HaAsherah he had made in the Beis Hashem of which Hashem said to Dovid, and to Sh'lomo bno, In this Beis, and in Yerushalayim, which I have chosen out of all Shivtei Yisroel, will I put Shmi (My Name) l'olam;
Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 16:19-22
18 Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates, which the Lord thy God giveth thee, throughout thy tribes: and they shall judge the people with just judgment. 19 Thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou shalt not respect persons, neither take a gift: for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous. 20 That which is altogether just shalt thou follow, that thou mayest live, and inherit the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee. 21 Thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any… Read the whole commentary →