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

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.

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.

you who practice ritual sex under the oaks and every green tree, who slaughter children near the streams under the rocky overhangs.

you built yourself a chamber and put up a pavilion in every public square.

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.

Groves

I will uproot your images of Asherah from your midst, and destroy your idols.

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.

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.

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.

He offered sacrifices and burned incense on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.

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

Under every

you who practice ritual sex under the oaks and every green tree, who slaughter children near the streams under the rocky overhangs.

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.