1 Kings 22:43
22:43 He followed in his father Asa’s footsteps and was careful to do what the
Lord approved.
(22:44)
However, the high places were not eliminated; the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense on the high places.
Leviticus 17:3-6
17:3 “Blood guilt
will be accounted to any man
from the house of Israel
who slaughters an ox or a lamb or a goat inside the camp or outside the camp,
17:4 but has not brought it to the entrance of the Meeting Tent
to present it as
an offering to the
Lord before the tabernacle of the
Lord. He has shed blood, so that man will be cut off from the midst of his people.
17:5 This is so that
the Israelites will bring their sacrifices that they are sacrificing in the open field
to the
Lord at the entrance of the Meeting Tent to the priest and sacrifice them there as peace offering sacrifices to the
Lord.
17:6 The priest is to splash
the blood on the altar
of the
Lord at the entrance of the Meeting Tent, and offer the fat up in smoke for a soothing aroma to the
Lord.
Leviticus 26:30
26:30 I will destroy your high places and cut down your incense altars,
and I will stack your dead bodies on top of the lifeless bodies of your idols.
I will abhor you.
Deuteronomy 12:2-5
12:2 You must by all means destroy
all the places where the nations you are about to dispossess worship their gods – on the high mountains and hills and under every leafy tree.
12:3 You must tear down their altars, shatter their sacred pillars,
burn up their sacred Asherah poles,
and cut down the images of their gods; you must eliminate their very memory from that place.
12:4 You must not worship the
Lord your God the way they worship.
12:5 But you must seek only the place he
chooses from all your tribes to establish his name as his place of residence,
and you must go there.
Deuteronomy 12:2
12:2 You must by all means destroy
all the places where the nations you are about to dispossess worship their gods – on the high mountains and hills and under every leafy tree.
Deuteronomy 33:17
33:17 May the firstborn of his bull bring him honor,
and may his horns be those of a wild ox;
with them may he gore all peoples,
all the far reaches of the earth.
They are the ten thousands of Ephraim,
and they are the thousands of Manasseh.