1 Kings 14:23

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Summary

1 Kings 14:23

For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree.

Built

Ezekiel 20:28

Groves

Under every

Isaiah 57:5

Jeremiah 3:13

Bible References

Built

Only the people sacrificed in the high places, because there was no house built for the name of Jehovah until those days.

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:

ye that inflame yourselves among the oaks, under every green tree; that slay the children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks?

that thou hast built unto thee a vaulted place, and hast made thee a lofty place in every street.

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.

Groves

and I will pluck up thine Asherim out of the midst of thee; and I will destroy thy cities.

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:

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;

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.

And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.

whilst their children remember their altars and their Asherim by the green trees upon the high hills.

Under every

ye that inflame yourselves among the oaks, under every green tree; that slay the children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks?

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.