1 Kings 14:23 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²³ For they also built for themselves high places, pillars, and sacred poles 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

He also made houses on high places and appointed priests from among all the people who were not Levites.

1 Kings 14:15

“The Lord will strike Israel as a reed is shaken in the water; he will root up Israel out of this good land that he gave to their ancestors and scatter them beyond the Euphrates, because they have made their sacred poles, provoking the Lord to anger.

1 Kings 15:12

He put away the illicit priests out of the land and removed all the idols that his ancestors had made.

1 Kings 20:23

The servants of the king of Aram said to him, “Their gods are gods of the hills, so 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

The people were sacrificing at the high places, however, because no house had yet been built for the name of the Lord.

1 Kings 3:3

Solomon loved the Lord, walking in the statutes of his father David, except that he sacrificed and offered incense at the high places.

2 Kings 10:26

They brought out the pillar that was in the temple of Baal and burned it.

2 Kings 16:4

He sacrificed and made offerings on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.

2 Kings 17:16

They rejected all the commandments of the Lord their God and made for themselves cast images of two calves; they made a sacred pole, worshiped all the host of heaven, and served Baal.

2 Kings 17:19

Judah also did not keep the commandments of the Lord their God but walked in the customs that Israel had introduced.

2 Chronicles 24:18

They abandoned the house of the Lord, the God of their ancestors, and served the sacred poles and the idols. And wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem for this guilt of theirs.

2 Chronicles 28:4

He sacrificed and made offerings on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.

Exodus 34:13

Rather, you shall tear down their altars, break their pillars, and cut down their sacred poles,

Isaiah 57:5

you who burn with lust among the oaks, under every green tree; you who slaughter your children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks?

Jeremiah 17:2

while their children remember their altars and their sacred poles beside every green tree and on the high hills,

Jeremiah 2:20

For long ago you broke your yoke and burst your bonds, and you said, “I will not serve!” On every high hill and under every green tree you sprawled and prostituted yourself.

Jeremiah 3:13

Only acknowledge your guilt, that you have rebelled against the Lord your God and scattered your favors among strangers under every green tree and have not obeyed my voice, says the Lord.

Ezekiel 6:13

And you shall know that I am the Lord when their slain lie among their idols around their altars, on every high hill, on all the mountaintops, under every green tree, and under every leafy oak, wherever they offered pleasing odor to all their idols.

Ezekiel 6:3

and say: You mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord God! Thus says the Lord God to the mountains and the hills, to the ravines and the valleys: I, I myself, will bring a sword upon you, and I will destroy your high places.

Ezekiel 6:6

Wherever you live, your towns shall be waste and your high places ruined, so that your altars will be waste and ruined, your idols broken and destroyed, your incense stands cut down, and your works wiped out.

Hosea 10:1

Israel is a luxuriant vine that yields its fruit. The more his fruit increased, the more altars he built; as his country improved, he improved his pillars.

Leviticus 26:1

“You shall make for yourselves no idols and erect no carved images or pillars, and you shall not place figured stones in your land, to worship at them, for I am the Lord your God.

Micah 5:14

and I will uproot your sacred poles from among you and destroy your towns.

Deuteronomy 12:2

“You must demolish completely all the places where the nations whom you are about to dispossess served their gods, on the mountain heights, on the hills, and under every leafy tree.

Deuteronomy 16:22

nor shall you set up a stone pillar—things that the Lord your God hates.