1 Kings 14:23

For they also built for them high places, and pillars, and Asherim, on every high hill, and under every green tree.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree.

In Context

22And Judah did that which was evil in the sight of LORD, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they committed, above all that their fathers had done.

24And there were also sodomites in the land. They did according to all the abominations of the nations which LORD drove out before the sons of Israel.

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Cross References

Leviticus 26:1Ye shall make for you no idols. Neither shall ye rear up for you a graven image, or a pillar. Neither shall ye place any figured stone in your land, to bow down to it. For I am LORD your God.

Deuteronomy 16:22Neither shall thou set up a pillar for thee, which LORD thy God hates.

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

1 Kings 14:15For LORD will smite Israel as a reed is shaken in the water. And he will root up Israel out of this good land which he gave to their fathers, and will scatter them beyond the River because they have made their Asherim, provoking LO

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 up for them pillars and Asherim upon 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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