1 Kings 14:23

And they also built themselves high-places, and standing images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree.

Leeser Tanakh

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 what is evil in the eyes of the Lord, and they moved him to wrath more than all that their fathers had done, with their sins which they committed.

24And sodomites also were in the land: they acted in accordance with all the abominable deeds of the nations which the Lord had driven out before the children of Israel.

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Cross References

Leviticus 26:1Ye shall not make yourselves any idols, and a graven image, or a standing image shall ye not rear up unto you, and any carved stone shall you not place in your land, to bow down upon it; for I am the Eternal your God.

Deuteronomy 16:22Neither shalt thou set thee up any statue, which the Lord thy God hateth.

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

1 Kings 14:15And the Lord will smite Israel, as the reed is shaken in the water, and he will pull up Israel out of this good land, which he gave to their fathers, and will scatter them on the other side of the river; because they have made their groves, provoking the Lord to anger.

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

2 Kings 17:10And had set themselves up statues and groves 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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