1 Kings 14:23

For they also built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.

World English Bible

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

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

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

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Cross References

Leviticus 26:1“‘You shall make for yourselves no idols, and you shall not raise up a carved image or a pillar, and you shall not place any figured stone in your land, to bow down to it; for I am the LORD your God.

Deuteronomy 16:22Neither shall you set yourself up a sacred stone which the LORD your God hates.

1 Kings 3:3Solomon loved the LORD, walking in the statutes of David his father, except that he sacrificed and burned incense in the high places.

1 Kings 14:15For the LORD will strike 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 Asherah poles, provoking the LORD to anger.

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

2 Kings 17:10and they set up for themselves pillars and Asherah poles 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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