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 14:23 in other translations
| BSB | They also built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree. |
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| WEB | For they also built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree. |
| ASV | For they also built them high places, and pillars, and Asherim, on every high hill, and under every green tree; |
| YLT | And they build--also they--for themselves high places, and standing-pillars, and shrines, on every high height, and under every green tree; |
| DARBY | And they also built for themselves high places, and columns, and Asherahs on every high hill and under every green tree; |
| BBE | For they made high places and upright stones and wood pillars on every high hill and under every green tree; |
| Webster | For they also built for themselves high places, and images and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree. |
What does 1 Kings 14:23 mean?
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on 1 Kings 14:21-31
Here is no good said of Rehoboam, and much said to the disadvantage of his subjects. The abounding of the worst crimes, of the worst of the heathen, in Jerusalem, the city the Lord had chosen for his temple and his worship, shows that nothing can mend the hearts of fallen men but the sanctifying grace of the Holy Spirit. On this alone may we depend; for this let us daily pray, in behalf of ourselves and all around…
1 Kings 14:23 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for 1 Kings 14:23
- Deuteronomy 12:2
Ye 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 57:5
Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks?
- 2 Kings 17:9-10
And 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. And they set them up images and groves in every high hill, and under every green tree:
- Ezekiel 16:24-25
That thou hast also built unto thee an eminent place, and hast made thee an high place in every street. Thou hast built thy high place at every head of the way, and hast made thy beauty to be abhorred, and hast opened thy feet to every one that passed by, and multiplied thy whoredoms.
- Micah 5:14
And I will pluck up thy groves out of the midst of thee: so will I destroy thy cities.
- 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. Then I said unto them, What is the high place whereunto ye go? And the name thereof is called Bamah unto this day.
- Jeremiah 3:13
Only 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.
- Jeremiah 2:20
For 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 3:2
Only the people sacrificed in high places, because there was no house built unto the name of the Lord, until those days.
- 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 their fathers, and shall scatter them beyond the river, because they have made their groves, provoking the Lord to anger.
- Deuteronomy 16:22
Neither shalt thou set thee up any image; which the Lord thy God hateth.
- 2 Chronicles 28:4
He sacrificed also and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.
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Context
- 1 Kings 14:22
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.
- 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 14:24
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.
1 Kings 14:23 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Porque ellos también se edificaron altos, estatuas, y bosques, en todo collado alto, y debajo de todo árbol frondoso: |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Et ils bâtirent, eux aussi, pour eux-mêmes, des hauts lieux, et des statues, et des ashères, sur toute haute colline et sous tout arbre vert; |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Und auch sie bauten sich Höhen und Bildsäulen und Ascherim auf jedem hohen Hügel und unter jedem grünen Baume. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Ædificaverunt enim et ipsi sibi aras, et statuas, et lucos super omnem collem excelsum, et subter omnem arborem frondosam: |