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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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In Context

22And 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.

24And 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.

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Cross References

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.

Deuteronomy 16:22Neither shalt thou set thee up any image; which the LORD thy God hateth.

1 Kings 3:3And Solomon loved the LORD, walking in the statutes of David his father: only he sacrificed and burnt incense in high places.

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.

2 Kings 16:4And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.

2 Kings 17:10And they set them up images and groves in every high hill, and under every green tree:

Matthew Henry on 1 Kings 14:22-31

Rehoboam's Disgrace and Death. ( b. c. 960.) 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… Read the whole commentary →

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