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 Yahweh until those days.

You shall surely destroy all the places in which the nations that you shall dispossess served their gods, on the high mountains, and on the hills, and under every green tree:

you who inflame yourselves among the oaks, under every green tree; who kill the children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks?

that you have built for yourselves a vaulted place, and have made yourselves a lofty place in every street.

For when I had brought them into the land, which I swore to give to 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 pleasant aroma, and they poured out there their drink offerings.

Groves

I will uproot your Asherim out of your midst; and I will destroy your cities.

You shall surely destroy all the places in which the nations that you shall dispossess served their gods, on the high mountains, and on the hills, and under every green tree:

The children of Israel did secretly things that were not right against Yahweh 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 worshiped all the army of the sky, and served them.

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

while their children remember their altars and their Asherim by the green trees on the high hills.

Under every

you who inflame yourselves among the oaks, under every green tree; who kill the children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks?

Only acknowledge your iniquity, that you have transgressed against Yahweh your God, and have scattered your ways to the strangers under every green tree, and you have not obeyed my voice,' says Yahweh."