"For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree. {images: o…" — 1 Kings 14:23

1 Kings 14:23 · KJV

“For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree. {images: or, standing images, or, statues}”

— 1 Kings 14:23

Verse 22

And Judah did evil in the sight of the LORD, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they had committed, above all that their fathers had done.

Verse 24

And 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.

1 Kings 14 — Context

And Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam {was} forty and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD did choose out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. And his mother's name {was} Naamah an Ammonitess.

And Judah did evil in the sight of the LORD, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they had committed, above all that their fathers had done.

For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree. {images: or, standing images, or, statues}

And 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.

And it came to pass in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, {that} Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem:

Cross References

Deuteronomy 12:2

Ye shall utterly 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: {possess: or, inherit}

Isaiah 57:5

Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks? {with...: or, among the oaks}

Ezekiel 16:24-25

{That} thou hast also built unto thee an eminent place, and hast made thee an high place in every street. {eminent...: or, brothel house}

2 Kings 17:9-10

And the children of Israel did secretly {those} things that {were} not right against the LORD their God, and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.

Leviticus 26:1

Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye set up {any} image of stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I {am} the LORD your God. {standing...: or, pillar} {image of...: or, figured stone: Heb. a stone of picture}

Deuteronomy 16:22

Neither shalt thou set thee up {any} image; which the LORD thy God hateth. {image: or, statue, or, pillar}

Jeremiah 17:2

Whilst their children remember their altars and their groves by the green trees upon the high hills.

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 groves, provoking the LORD to anger.

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