Parallel Verses
American Standard Version
For they also built them high places, and pillars, and Asherim, on every high hill, and under every green tree;
New American Standard Bible
For they also built for themselves
King James Version
For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree.
Holman Bible
They also built for themselves high places,
International Standard Version
They erected high places, sacred pillars, and Asherim for themselves on every high hill and under every green tree.
A Conservative Version
For they also built for them high places, and pillars, and Asherim, on every high hill, and under every green tree.
Amplified
For they also built for themselves high places [to worship idols] and sacred pillars and Asherim [for the goddess Asherah]. These were on every high hill and under every luxuriant tree.
Bible in Basic English
For they made high places and upright stones and wood pillars on every high hill and under every green tree;
Darby Translation
And they also built for themselves high places, and columns, and Asherahs on every high hill and under every green tree;
Julia Smith Translation
And they will also build to them heights and statues, and pillars, upon every high hill, and, under every green tree.
King James 2000
For they also built them high places, and images, and idol poles, on every high hill, and under every green tree.
Lexham Expanded Bible
They also built for themselves high places and stone pillars and sacred poles on every high hill and under every green tree.
Modern King James verseion
For they also built high places for themselves, and images, and Asherahs, on every high hill and under every green tree.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
For they also made them hill altars and images and groves on every high hill and under every green tree.
NET Bible
They even built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.
New Heart English Bible
For they also built them high places, and pillars, and Asherim, on every high hill, and under every green tree;
The Emphasized Bible
And, they also, built for themselves high places and pillars, and Sacred Stems, - upon every high hill, and under every green tree.
Webster
For they also built for themselves high places, and images and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree.
World English Bible
For they also built them high places, and pillars, and Asherim, on every high hill, and under every green tree;
Youngs Literal Translation
And they build -- also they -- for themselves high places, and standing-pillars, and shrines, on every high height, and under every green tree;
Themes
Groves » Worshiped by israelites
Groves » Often on tops of hills
High places » Signify a place of idolatrous worship
High places » The jews » Provoked God with
High places » Built by » People of judah
High places » Surrounded with groves
Israel » Josiah » Son » Zedekiah » Other circumstances of his reign
Kings » Who reigned over judah » Rehoboam (latter part of his reign)
Interlinear
Banah
Gaboahh
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in 1 Kings 14:23
Verse Info
Context Readings
Rehoboam Reigns In Judah
22 And Judah did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they committed, above all that their fathers had done. 23 For they also built them high places, and pillars, and Asherim, on every high hill, and under every green tree; 24 and there were also sodomites in the land: they did according to all the abominations of the nations which Jehovah drove out before the children of Israel.
Phrases
Cross References
Deuteronomy 12:2
Ye shall surely destroy all the places wherein the nations that ye shall dispossess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree:
Isaiah 57:5
ye that inflame yourselves among the oaks, under every green tree; that slay the children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks?
2 Kings 17:9-10
And the children of Israel did secretly things that were not right against Jehovah their God: and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fortified city;
Ezekiel 16:24-25
that thou hast built unto thee a vaulted place, and hast made thee a lofty place in every street.
Leviticus 26:1
Ye shall make you no idols, neither shall ye rear you up a graven image, or a pillar, neither shall ye place any figured stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I am Jehovah your God.
Deuteronomy 16:22
Neither shalt thou set thee up a pillar; which Jehovah thy God hateth.
1 Kings 3:2
Only the people sacrificed in the high places, because there was no house built for the name of Jehovah until those days.
1 Kings 14:15
For Jehovah will smite Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water; and he will root up Israel out of this good land which he gave to their fathers, and will scatter them beyond the River, because they have made their Asherim, provoking Jehovah to anger.
2 Kings 21:3-7
For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, and made an Asherah, as did Ahab king of Israel, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.
2 Chronicles 28:4
And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.
Jeremiah 2:20
For of old time I have broken thy yoke, and burst thy bonds; and thou saidst, I will not serve; for upon every high hill and under every green tree thou didst bow thyself, playing the harlot.
Jeremiah 3:13
Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against Jehovah thy God, and hast scattered thy ways to the strangers under every green tree, and ye have not obeyed my voice, saith Jehovah.
Jeremiah 17:2
whilst their children remember their altars and their Asherim by the green trees upon the high hills.
Ezekiel 20:28-29
For when I had brought them into the land, which I sware to give unto them, then they saw every high hill, and every thick tree, and they offered there their sacrifices, and there they presented the provocation of their offering; there also they made their sweet savor, and they poured out there their drink-offerings.
Micah 5:14
and I will pluck up thine Asherim out of the midst of thee; and I will destroy thy cities.