1 Kings 14:23

For they made high places and upright stones and wood pillars on every high hill and under every green tree;

Bible in Basic English

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 evil in the eyes of the Lord, and made him more angry than their fathers had done by their sins.

24And more than this, there were those in the land who were used for sex purposes in the worship of the gods, doing the same disgusting crimes as the nations which the Lord had sent out before the children of Israel.

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Cross References

Leviticus 26:1Do not make images of false gods, or put up an image cut in stone or a pillar or any pictured stone in your land, to give worship to it; for I am the Lord your God.

Deuteronomy 16:22You are not to put up stone pillars, for they are hated by the Lord your God.

1 Kings 3:3And Solomon, in his love for the Lord, kept the laws of David his father; but he made offerings and let them go up in smoke on the high places.

1 Kings 14:15And even now the hand of the Lord has come down on Israel, shaking it like a river-grass in the water; and, uprooting Israel from this good land, which he gave to their fathers, he will send them this way and that on the other side of the River; because they have made for themselves images, moving the Lord to wrath.

2 Kings 16:4And he made offerings, burning them in the high places and on the hills and under every green tree.

2 Kings 17:10They put up pillars of stone and wood on 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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