1 Kings 14:23
For they, too, built for themselves altars, and statues, and sacred groves, upon every high hill and under every leafy tree.
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Leviticus 26:1I am the Lord your God. You shall not make for yourselves an idol or a graven image. Neither shall you erect a monument, or set up a conspicuous stone in your land, in order that you may adore it. For I am the Lord your God.
Deuteronomy 16:22you shall neither make nor set up for yourself a statue. These things the Lord your God hates.”
1 Kings 3:3Now Solomon loved the Lord, walking in the precepts of David, his father, except that he immolated in the high places, and he burned incense.
1 Kings 14:15And the Lord God shall strike Israel, just as a reed is usually shaken in the water. And he will uproot Israel from this good land, which he gave to their fathers. And he will winnow them beyond the river. For they have made for themselves sacred groves, so that they have provoked the Lord.
2 Kings 16:4Also, he was immolating victims, and burning incense, in the high places, and on the hills, and under every leafy tree.
2 Kings 17:10And they made for themselves statues and sacred groves, on every high hill and under every leafy 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 →