1 Kings 14:23 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

²³ For they also built them high places, and pillars, and Asherim, 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.

1 Kings 14:23 Cross References

Deuteronomy 12:2

Ye shall surely 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:

Isaiah 57:5

ye that inflame yourselves among the oaks, under every green tree; that slay the children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks?

Micah 5:14

and I will pluck up thine Asherim out of the midst of thee: and I will destroy thy cities.

Jeremiah 17:2

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

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.

Jeremiah 2:20

For of old time I have broken thy yoke, and burst thy bands; and thou saidst, I will not serve; for upon every high hill and under every green tree thou didst bow thyself, playing the harlot.

2 Chronicles 28:4

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

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 Asherim, provoking the LORD to anger.

1 Kings 3:2

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

Deuteronomy 16:22

Neither shalt thou set thee up a pillar; which the LORD thy God hateth.

Leviticus 26:1

Ye shall make you no idols, neither shall ye rear you up a graven image, or a pillar, neither shall ye place any figured stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I am the LORD your God.

Exodus 34:13

but ye shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and ye shall cut down their Asherim:

1 Kings 15:12

And he put 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 god is a god 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.

2 Kings 10:26

And they brought forth the pillars that were in the house of Baal, and burned them.

2 Kings 17:16

And they forsook all the commandments of the LORD their God, and made them molten images, even two calves, and made an Asherah, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served Baal.

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.

Ezekiel 6:13

And ye shall 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 savour to all their idols.

Hosea 10:1

Israel is a luxuriant vine, which putteth forth his fruit: according to the multitude of his fruit he hath multiplied his altars; according to the goodness of his land they have made goodly pillars.

1 Kings 3:3

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

1 Kings 12:31

And he made houses of high places, and made priests from among all the people, which were not of the sons of Levi.

2 Kings 16:4

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

2 Chronicles 24:18

And they forsook the house of the LORD, the God of their fathers, and served the Asherim and the idols: and wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem for this their guiltiness.

Ezekiel 6:3

and say, Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD Thus saith the Lord GODto the mountains and to the hills, to the watercourses 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 sun-images may be hewn down, and your works may be abolished.