1 Kings 14:23 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

²³ For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²³ For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²³ For they also built themselves [idolatrous] high places, pillars, and Asherim [idolatrous symbols of the goddess Asherah] on every high hill and under every green tree.

American Standard Version (1901)

²³ For they also built them high places, and pillars, and Asherim, on every high hill, and under every green tree;

Common English Bible

²³ They also built shrines, standing stones, and sacred poles on top of every high hill and under every green tree.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²³ For they, too, built for themselves altars, and statues, and sacred groves, upon every high hill and under every leafy tree.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²³ For they also built them altars, and statues, and groves upon every high hill and under every green tree.

1 Kings 14:23 Cross References

1 Kings 12:31

And he made a house of high places, and made priests of the lowest of the people, which were not of the sons of Levi.

1 Kings 14:15

For the Lord shall smite 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 their groves, provoking the Lord to anger.

1 Kings 15:12

And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.

1 Kings 20:23

And the servants of the king of Syria said unto him, Their gods are gods of the hills; therefore they were stronger than we; but let us fight against them in the plain, and surely we shall be stronger than they.

1 Kings 3:2

Only the people sacrificed in high places, because there was no house built unto the name of the Lord, until those days.

1 Kings 3:3

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

2 Kings 10:26

And they brought forth the images out of the house of Ba´al, and burned them.

2 Kings 16:4

And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.

2 Kings 17:16

And they left all the commandments of the Lord their God, and made them molten images, even two calves, and made a grove, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served Ba´al.

2 Kings 17:19

Also Judah kept not the commandments of the Lord their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made.

2 Chronicles 24:18

And they left the house of the Lord God of their fathers, and served groves and idols: and wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem for this their trespass.

2 Chronicles 28:4

He sacrificed also and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.

Exodus 34:13

but ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves:

Isaiah 57:5

inflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clefts of the rocks?

Jeremiah 17:2

whilst their children remember their altars and their groves by the green trees upon the high hills.

Jeremiah 2:20

For of old time I have broken thy yoke, and burst thy bands; and thou saidst, I will not transgress; when upon every high hill and under every green tree thou wanderest, playing the harlot.

Jeremiah 3:13

Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against the Lord thy God, and hast scattered thy ways to the strangers under every green tree, and ye have not obeyed my voice, saith the Lord.

Ezekiel 6:13

Then shall ye know that I am the Lord, when their slain men shall be among their idols round about their altars, upon every high hill, in all the tops of the mountains, and under every green tree, and under every thick oak, the place where they did offer sweet savor to all their idols.

Ezekiel 6:3

and say, Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord God; Thus saith the Lord God to the mountains and to the hills, to the rivers and to the valleys; Behold, I, even I, will bring a sword upon you, and I will destroy your high places.

Ezekiel 6:6

In all your dwelling places the cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be desolate; that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate, and your idols may be broken and cease, and your images may be cut down, and your works may be abolished.

Hosea 10:1

Israel is an empty vine, he bringeth forth fruit unto himself: according to the multitude of his fruit he hath increased the altars; according to the goodness of his land they have made goodly images.

Leviticus 26:1

Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye set up any image of stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I am the Lord your God.

Micah 5:14

And I will pluck up thy groves out of the midst of thee: so will I destroy thy cities.

Deuteronomy 12:2

Ye shall utterly destroy all the places, wherein the nations which ye shall possess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree:

Deuteronomy 16:22

Neither shalt thou set thee up any image; which the Lord thy God hateth.