1 Kings 14:23

And they build — also they — for themselves high places, and standing-pillars, and shrines, on every high height, and under every green tree;

Young's Literal Translation

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 doth the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah, and they make Him zealous above all that their fathers did by their sins that they have sinned.

24and also a whoremonger hath been in the land; they have done according to all the abominations of the nations that Jehovah dispossessed from the presence of the sons of Israel.

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Cross References

Leviticus 26:1'Ye do not make to yourselves idols; and graven image or standing image ye do not set up to yourselves; and a stone of imagery ye do not put in your land, to bow yourselves to it; for I [am] Jehovah your God.

Deuteronomy 16:22and thou dost not raise up to thee any standing image which Jehovah thy God is hating.

1 Kings 3:3And Solomon loveth Jehovah, to walk in the statutes of David his father — only, in high places he is sacrificing and making perfume —

1 Kings 14:15And Jehovah hath smitten Israel as the reed is moved by the waters, and hath plucked Israel from off this good ground that He gave to their fathers, and scattered them beyond the River, because that they made their shrines, provoking Jehovah to anger;

2 Kings 16:4and he sacrificeth and maketh perfume in high places, and on the heights, and under every green tree.

2 Kings 17:10and set up for them standing-pillars and shrines on every high height, 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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