1 Kings 14:23

New American Bible - revised edition

They, too, built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and asherahs, upon every high hill and under every green tree.

Cross References

1 Kings 12:31

He also built temples on the high places and made priests from among the common people who were not Levites. Divine Disapproval.

1 Kings 14:15

The Lord will strike Israel like a reed tossed about in the water and will pluck out Israel from this good land which he gave their ancestors, and will scatter them beyond the River, because they made asherahs for themselves, provoking the Lord.

1 Kings 15:12

banishing the pagan priests from the land and removing all the idols his ancestors had made.

1 Kings 20:23

Meanwhile the servants of the king of Aram said to him: “Their gods are mountain gods. That is why they defeated us. But if we fight them on level ground, we shall be sure to defeat them.

1 Kings 3:2

The people were sacrificing on the high places, however, for up to that time no house had been built for the name of the Lord.

1 Kings 3:3

Although Solomon loved the Lord, walking in the statutes of David his father, he offered sacrifice and burned incense on the high places.

2 Kings 10:26

and took out the pillars of the temple of Baal. They burned the shrine,

2 Kings 16:4

Further, he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places, on hills, and under every green tree.

2 Kings 17:16

They abandoned all the commandments of the Lord, their God: they made for themselves two molten calves; they made an asherah; they bowed down to all the host of heaven; they served Baal.

2 Kings 17:19

Even the people of Judah did not keep the commandments of the Lord, their God, but followed the rites practiced by Israel.

2 Chronicles 24:18

They abandoned the house of the Lord, the God of their ancestors, and began to serve the asherahs and the idols; and because of this crime of theirs, wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 28:4

He sacrificed and burned incense on the high places, on hills, and under every green tree. Ahaz Punished.

Exodus 34:13

Tear down their altars; smash their sacred stones, and cut down their asherahs.

Isaiah 57:5

You who burn with lust among the oaks, under every green tree; You who immolate children in the wadies, among the clefts of the rocks?

Jeremiah 17:2

when their children remember their altars and their asherahs, beside the green trees, on the high hills,

Jeremiah 2:20

Long ago you broke your yoke, you tore off your bonds. You said, “I will not serve.” On every high hill, under every green tree, you sprawled and served as a prostitute.

Jeremiah 3:13

Only admit your guilt: how you have rebelled against the Lord, your God, How you ran here and there to strangers under every green tree and would not listen to my voice—oracle of the Lord.

Ezekiel 6:13

They shall know that I am the Lord, when their slain lie among their idols, all around their altars, on every high hill and mountaintop, beneath every green tree and leafy oak—any place they offer sweet-smelling oblations to all their idols.

Ezekiel 6:3

You shall say: Mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord God. Thus says the Lord God to the mountains and hills, to the ravines and valleys: Pay attention! I am bringing a sword against you, and I will destroy your high places.

Ezekiel 6:6

Wherever you live, cities shall be ruined and high places laid waste, in order that your altars be laid waste and devastated, your idols broken and smashed, your incense altars hacked to pieces, and whatever you have made wiped out.

Hosea 10:1

Israel is a luxuriant vine whose fruit matches its growth. The more abundant his fruit, the more altars he built; The more productive his land, the more sacred pillars he set up.

Leviticus 26:1

Do not make idols for yourselves. You shall not erect a carved image or a sacred stone for yourselves, nor shall you set up a carved stone for worship in your land; for I, the Lord, am your God.

Micah 5:14

I will wreak vengeance in anger and wrath upon the nations that have not listened.

Deuteronomy 12:2

Destroy entirely all the places where the nations you are to dispossess serve their gods, on the high mountains, on the hills, and under every green tree.

Deuteronomy 16:22

nor shall you erect a sacred pillar, such as the Lord, your God, hates.