1 Kings 14:23

For they also built them altars, and statues, and groves upon every high hill and under every green tree:

Douay-Rheims 1899

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 Juda did evil in the sight of the Lord, and provoked him above all that their fathers had done, in their sins which they committed.

24There were also the effeminate in the land, and they did according to all the abominations of the people whom the Lord had destroyed before the face of the children of Israel.

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Cross References

Leviticus 26:1I am the Lord your God: you shall not make to yourselves any idol or graven thing, neither shall you erect pillars, nor set up a remarkable stone in your land, to adore it: for I am the Lord your God.

Deuteronomy 16:22Neither shalt thou make nor set up to thyself a statue: which things the Lord thy God hateth.

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

1 Kings 14:15And the Lord God shall strike 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 to themselves groves, to provoke the Lord.

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

2 Kings 17:10And they made them statues and groves on every high hill, and under every shady 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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