1 Kings 14:23
“For they also built them high places, and images, and groues on euery high hill, and vnder euery greene tree.”
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1 Kings 14:23 Context
21¶ And Rehoboam the sonne of Solomon reigned in Iudah: Rehoboam was fourtie and one yeeres olde when he began to reigne, and hee reigned seuenteene yeeres in Ierusalem, the citie which the Lord did chuse out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his Name there: and his mothers name was Naamah an Ammonitesse. 22And Iudah did euill in the sight of the Lord, and they prouoked him to iealousie with their sinnes which they had committed, aboue all that their fathers had done. 23For they also built them high places, and images, and groues on euery high hill, and vnder euery greene tree. 24And there were also Sodomites in the land, and they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the Lord cast out before the children of Israel. 25¶ And it came to passe in the fift yeere of king Rehoboam, that Shishak king of Egypt came vp against Ierusalem:
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Other Translations for 1 Kings 14:23
For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree.
- King James Version
For they also built for themselves high places and {sacred} pillars and Asherim on every high hill and beneath every luxuriant tree.
- New American Standard Version (1995)
For they also built them high places, and pillars, and Asherim, on every high hill, and under every green tree;
- American Standard Version (1901)
For they made high places and upright stones and wood pillars on every high hill and under every green tree;
- Basic English Bible
And they also built for themselves high places, and columns, and Asherahs on every high hill and under every green tree;
- Darby Bible
For they also built for themselves high places, and images and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree.
- Webster's Bible
For they also built them high places, and pillars, and Asherim, on every high hill, and under every green tree;
- World English Bible
And they build -- also they -- for themselves high places, and standing-pillars, and shrines, on every high height, and under every green tree;
- Youngs Literal Bible
For they also built them high places, and pillars, and Asherim, on every high hill, and under every leafy tree;
- Jewish Publication Society Bible
Wesley's Notes for 1 Kings 14:23
14:23 They also - Followed the example of the Israelites, althoughthey were better instructed, and had the temple in their kingdom, andliberty of access to it, and the privilege of worshipping God in hisown way, and the counsels, and sermons, and examples of the priests andLevites, and the dreadful example of Israel's horrid apostacy,to caution and terrify them. High places - Which was unlawful, and,now especially when the temple was built, and ready to receive them;unnecessary, and therefore expressed a greater contempt of God and hisexpress command. Groves - Not only after the manner of the Heathensand Israelites, but against a direct and particular prohibition.Under every green tree - The people were universally corrupted: whichis prodigious, all things considered, and is a clear evidence of thegreatness and depth of the original corruption of man's nature.