1 Kings 14:23

For they also made them hie places, and images, and groues on euery hie hill, and vnder euery greene tree.

Geneva Bible 1599

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 Iudah wrought wickednesse in the sight of the Lord: and they prouoked him more with their sinnes, which they had committed, then all that which their fathers had done.

24There were also Sodomites in the lande, they did according to all the abominations of the nations, which the Lord had cast out before the children of Israel.

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Cross References

Leviticus 26:1Ye shall make you none idoles nor grauen image, neither reare you vp any pillar, neither shall ye set any image of stone in your land to bow downe to it: for I am the Lord your God.

Deuteronomy 16:22Thou shalt set thee vp no pillar, which thing the Lord thy God hateth.

1 Kings 3:3And Salomon loued the Lord, walking in the ordinances of Dauid his father: onely he sacrificed and offred incense in the hie places.

1 Kings 14:15For the Lord shall smite Israel, as when a reede is shaken in the water, and hee shall weede Israel out of his good lad, which he gaue to their fathers, and shall scatter them beyond the Riuer, because they haue made them groues, prouoking the Lord to anger.

2 Kings 16:4Also he offred and burnt incense in the hie places and on the hilles, and vnder euery greene tree.

2 Kings 17:10And had made them images and groues vpon euery hie hill, and vnder euery greene 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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