1 Kings 14:23

New International Version

They also set up for themselves high places, sacred stones and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every spreading tree.

Cross References

1 Kings 12:31

Jeroboam built shrines on high places and appointed priests from all sorts of people, even though they were not Levites.

1 Kings 14:15

And the Lord will strike Israel, so that it will be like a reed swaying in the water. He will uproot Israel from this good land that he gave to their ancestors and scatter them beyond the Euphrates River, because they aroused the Lord’s anger by making Asherah poles.

1 Kings 15:12

He expelled the male shrine prostitutes from the land and got rid of all the idols his ancestors had made.

1 Kings 20:23

Meanwhile, the officials of the king of Aram advised him, “Their gods are gods of the hills. That is why they were too strong for us. But if we fight them on the plains, surely we will be stronger than they.

1 Kings 3:2

The people, however, were still sacrificing at the high places, because a temple had not yet been built for the Name of the Lord.

1 Kings 3:3

Solomon showed his love for the Lord by walking according to the instructions given him by his father David, except that he offered sacrifices and burned incense on the high places.

2 Kings 10:26

They brought the sacred stone out of the temple of Baal and burned it.

2 Kings 16:4

He offered sacrifices and burned incense at the high places, on the hilltops and under every spreading tree.

2 Kings 17:16

They forsook all the commands of the Lord their God and made for themselves two idols cast in the shape of calves, and an Asherah pole. They bowed down to all the starry hosts, and they worshiped Baal.

2 Kings 17:19

and even Judah did not keep the commands of the Lord their God. They followed the practices Israel had introduced.

2 Chronicles 24:18

They abandoned the temple of the Lord, the God of their ancestors, and worshiped Asherah poles and idols. Because of their guilt, God’s anger came on Judah and Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 28:4

He offered sacrifices and burned incense at the high places, on the hilltops and under every spreading tree.

Exodus 34:13

Break down their altars, smash their sacred stones and cut down their Asherah poles.

Isaiah 57:5

You burn with lust among the oaks and under every spreading tree; you sacrifice your children in the ravines and under the overhanging crags.

Jeremiah 17:2

Even their children remember their altars and Asherah poles beside the spreading trees and on the high hills.

Jeremiah 2:20

“Long ago you broke off your yoke and tore off your bonds; you said, ‘I will not serve you!’ Indeed, on every high hill and under every spreading tree you lay down as a prostitute.

Jeremiah 3:13

Only acknowledge your guilt— you have rebelled against the Lord your God, you have scattered your favors to foreign gods under every spreading tree, and have not obeyed me,’ ” declares the Lord.

Ezekiel 6:13

And they will know that I am the Lord, when their people lie slain among their idols around their altars, on every high hill and on all the mountaintops, under every spreading tree and every leafy oak—places where they offered fragrant incense to all their idols.

Ezekiel 6:3

and say: ‘You mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Sovereign Lord. This is what the Sovereign Lord says to the mountains and hills, to the ravines and valleys: I am about to bring a sword against you, and I will destroy your high places.

Ezekiel 6:6

Wherever you live, the towns will be laid waste and the high places demolished, so that your altars will be laid waste and devastated, your idols smashed and ruined, your incense altars broken down, and what you have made wiped out.

Hosea 10:1

Israel was a spreading vine; he brought forth fruit for himself. As his fruit increased, he built more altars; as his land prospered, he adorned his sacred stones.

Leviticus 26:1

“ ‘Do not make idols or set up an image or a sacred stone for yourselves, and do not place a carved stone in your land to bow down before it. I am the Lord your God.

Micah 5:14

I will uproot from among you your Asherah poles when I demolish your cities.

Deuteronomy 12:2

Destroy completely all the places on the high mountains, on the hills and under every spreading tree, where the nations you are dispossessing worship their gods.

Deuteronomy 16:22

and do not erect a sacred stone, for these the Lord your God hates.