1 Kings 14:23

New Century Version

The people built stone pillars and places to worship gods and Asherah idols on every high hill and under every green tree.

Cross References

1 Kings 12:31

Jeroboam built temples on the places of worship. He also chose priests from all the people, not just from the tribe of Levi.

1 Kings 14:15

Then the Lord will punish Israel, which will be like reeds swaying in the water. The Lord will pull up Israel from this good land, the land he gave their ancestors. He will scatter Israel beyond the Euphrates River, because he is angry with the people. They made the Lord angry when they set up idols to worship Asherah.

1 Kings 15:12

He forced the male prostitutes at the worship places to leave the country. He also took away the idols that his ancestors had made.

1 Kings 20:23

Meanwhile the officers of Ben-Hadad king of Aram said to him, “The gods of Israel are mountain gods. Since we fought in a mountain area, Israel won. Let’s fight them on the flat land, and then we will win.

1 Kings 3:2

The Temple for the worship of the Lord had not yet been finished, so people were still sacrificing at altars in many places of worship.

1 Kings 3:3

Solomon showed he loved the Lord by following the commands his father David had given him, except many other places of worship were still used to offer sacrifices and to burn incense.

2 Kings 10:26

and brought out the pillars of the temple of Baal and burned them.

2 Kings 16:4

Ahaz offered sacrifices and burned incense at the places where gods were worshiped, on the hills, and under every green tree.

2 Kings 17:16

The people rejected all the commands of the Lord their God. They molded statues of two calves, and they made an Asherah idol. They worshiped all the stars of the sky and served Baal.

2 Kings 17:19

But even Judah did not obey the commands of the Lord their God. They did what the Israelites had done,

2 Chronicles 24:18

The king and these leaders stopped worshiping in the Temple of the Lord, the God of their ancestors. Instead, they began to worship the Asherah idols and other idols. Because they did wrong, God was angry with the people of Judah and Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 28:4

Ahaz offered sacrifices and burned incense at the places where gods were worshiped, and on the hills, and under every green tree.

Exodus 34:13

Destroy their altars, break their stone pillars, and cut down their Asherah idols.

Isaiah 57:5

You have sexual relations under every green tree to worship your gods. You kill children in the ravines and sacrifice them in the rocky places.

Jeremiah 17:2

Even their children remember their altars to idols and their Asherah idols beside the green trees and on the high hills.

Jeremiah 2:20

“Long ago you refused to obey me as an ox breaks its yoke. You broke the ropes I used to hold you and said, ‘I will not serve you!’ In fact, on every high hill and under every green tree you lay down as a prostitute.

Jeremiah 3:13

All you have to do is admit your sin— that you turned against the Lord your God and worshiped gods under every green tree and didn’t obey me,’ ” says the Lord.

Ezekiel 6:13

Their people will lie dead among their idols around the altars, on every high hill, on all the mountain tops, and under every green tree and leafy oak—all the places where they offered sweet-smelling incense to their idols. Then you will know that I am the Lord.

Ezekiel 6:3

Say, ‘Mountains of Israel, listen to the word of the Lord God. The Lord God says this to the mountains, the hills, the ravines, and the valleys: I will bring a sword against you, and I will destroy your places of idol worship.

Ezekiel 6:6

In all the places you live, cities will become empty. The places of idol worship will be ruined; your altars will become lonely ruins. Your idols will be broken and brought to an end. Your incense altars will be cut down, and the things you made will be wiped out.

Hosea 10:1

Israel is like a large vine that produced plenty of fruit. As the people became richer, they built more altars for idols. As their land became better, they put up better stone pillars to honor gods.

Leviticus 26:1

“ ‘Don’t make idols for yourselves or set up statues or memorials. Don’t put stone statues in your land to bow down to, because I am the Lord your God.

Micah 5:14

I will tear down Asherah idols from you and destroy your cities.

Deuteronomy 12:2

When you inherit the lands of these nations, you must completely destroy all the places where they serve their gods, on high mountains and hills and under every green tree.

Deuteronomy 16:22

and do not set up holy stone pillars. The Lord your God hates them.