Parallel Verses
NET Bible
They even built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles 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.
American Standard Version
For they also built 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.
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 Judah did evil in the sight of the Lord. They made him more jealous by their sins than their ancestors had done. 23 They even built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree. 24 There were also male cultic prostitutes in the land. They committed the same horrible sins as the nations that the Lord had driven out from before the Israelites.
Phrases
Cross References
Deuteronomy 12:2
You must by all means destroy all the places where the nations you are about to dispossess worship their gods -- on the high mountains and hills and under every leafy tree.
Isaiah 57:5
you who practice ritual sex under the oaks and every green tree, who slaughter children near the streams under the rocky overhangs.
2 Kings 17:9-10
The Israelites said things about the Lord their God that were not right. They built high places in all their cities, from the watchtower to the fortress.
Ezekiel 16:24-25
you built yourself a chamber and put up a pavilion in every public square.
Leviticus 26:1
"'You must not make for yourselves idols, so you must not set up for yourselves a carved image or a pillar, and you must not place a sculpted stone in your land to bow down before it, for I am the Lord your God.
Deuteronomy 16:22
You must not erect a sacred pillar, a thing the Lord your God detests.
1 Kings 3:2
Now the people were offering sacrifices at the high places, because in those days a temple had not yet been built to honor the Lord.
1 Kings 14:15
The Lord will attack Israel, making it like a reed that sways in the water. He will remove Israel from this good land he gave to their ancestors and scatter them beyond the Euphrates River, because they angered the Lord by making Asherah poles.
2 Kings 21:3-7
He rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed; he set up altars for Baal and made an Asherah pole just like King Ahab of Israel had done. He bowed down to all the stars in the sky and worshiped them.
2 Chronicles 28:4
He offered sacrifices and burned incense on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.
Jeremiah 2:20
"Indeed, long ago you threw off my authority and refused to be subject to me. You said, 'I will not serve you.' Instead, you gave yourself to other gods on every high hill and under every green tree, like a prostitute sprawls out before her lovers.
Jeremiah 3:13
However, you must confess that you have done wrong, and that you have rebelled against the Lord your God. You must confess that you have given yourself to foreign gods under every green tree, and have not obeyed my commands,' says the Lord.
Jeremiah 17:2
Their children are always thinking about their altars and their sacred poles dedicated to the goddess Asherah, set up beside the green trees on the high hills
Ezekiel 20:28-29
I brought them to the land which I swore to give them, but whenever they saw any high hill or leafy tree, they offered their sacrifices there and presented the offerings that provoke me to anger. They offered their soothing aroma there and poured out their drink offerings.
Micah 5:14
I will uproot your images of Asherah from your midst, and destroy your idols.