KJV King James Version
For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
1 Kings 14:23
For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
They also built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.
WEB World English Bible
For they also built them high places, and pillars, and Asherim, on every high hill, and under every green tree;
ASV American Standard Version
For they also built them high places, and pillars, and Asherim, on every high hill, and under every green tree;
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
And they build—also they—for themselves high places, and standing-pillars, and shrines, on every high height, and under every green tree;
Surrounding context — 1 Kings 14
20 And the days which Jeroboam reigned [were] two and twenty years: and he slept with his fathers, and Nadab his son reigned in his stead.
21 And Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam [was] forty and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD did choose out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. And his mother’s name [was] Naamah an Ammonitess.
22 And Judah did evil in the sight of the LORD, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they had committed, above all that their fathers had done.
23 For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree.
24 And there were also sodomites in the land: [and] they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.
25 And it came to pass in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, [that] Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem:
26 And he took away the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king’s house; he even took away all: and he took away all the shields of gold which Solomon had made.
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וַיִּבְנ֨וּH1129 · ba.nahto buildגַם־H1571 · gamalsoהֵ֧מָּהH1992 · hem.mahthey(masc.)לָהֶ֛םH9038 · hemthemבָּמ֥וֹתH1116 · ba.mahhigh placeוּמַצֵּב֖וֹתH4676 · mats.tse.vahpillarוַאֲשֵׁרִ֑יםH842 · a.she.rahAsherahעַ֚לH5921 · aluponכָּל־H3605 · kolallגִּבְעָ֣הH1389 · giv.ahGibeath-(elohim)גְבֹהָ֔הH1364 · ga.vo.ahhighוְתַ֖חַתH8478 · ta.chatunderneath: underכָּל־H3605 · kolallעֵ֥ץH6086 · etstree: woodרַעֲנָֽן׃H7488 · ra.anbe fresh
Cross-references
Deuteronomy 12:2Ye shall utterly destroy all the places, wherein the nations which ye shall possess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree:Isaiah 57:5Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks?Ezekiel 16:24-25[That] thou hast also built unto thee an eminent place, and hast made thee an high place in every street.2 Kings 17:9-10And the children of Israel did secretly [those] things that [were] not right against the LORD their God, and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.2 Kings 21:3-7For 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 Ahab king of Israel; and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.Jeremiah 2:20For of old time I have broken thy yoke, [and] burst thy bands; and thou saidst, I will not transgress; when upon every high hill and under every green tree thou wanderest, playing the harlot.1 Kings 14:15For 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 their fathers, and shall scatter them beyond the river, because they have made their groves, provoking the LORD to anger.Ezekiel 20:28-29[For] when I had brought them into the land, [for] the which I lifted up mine hand to give it to them, then they saw every high hill, and all the thick trees, and they offered there their sacrifices, and there they presented the provocation of their offering: there also they made their sweet savour, and poured out there their drink offerings.Jeremiah 17:2Whilst their children remember their altars and their groves by the green trees upon the high hills.Micah 5:14And I will pluck up thy groves out of the midst of thee: so will I destroy thy cities.2 Chronicles 28:4He sacrificed also and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.Jeremiah 3:13Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against the LORD thy God, and hast scattered thy ways to the strangers under every green tree, and ye have not obeyed my voice, saith the LORD.Deuteronomy 16:22Neither shalt thou set thee up [any] image; which the LORD thy God hateth.1 Kings 3:2Only the people sacrificed in high places, because there was no house built unto the name of the LORD, until those days.Leviticus 26:1Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye set up [any] image of stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I [am] the LORD your God.
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