Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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;
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 the thing that was wicked in the eyes of Yahweh, - and provoked him to jealousy, above all that their fathers had done, with their sins which they committed. 23 And, they also, built for themselves high places and pillars, and Sacred Stems, - upon every high hill, and under every green tree. 24 Moreover also, there were, male devotees, in the land, - they did according to all the abominable practices of the nations, which Yahweh dispossessed from before the sons of Israel.
Phrases
Cross References
Deuteronomy 12:2
Ye must utterly destroy, all the places where the nations whom ye are dispossessing have served their gods, - Upon the high mountains And upon the hills, And under every green tree;
Isaiah 57:5
Who inflame yourselves With the terebinths, Under every green tree - Slaying the children, In the torrent-valleys, Under the clefts of the crags:
2 Kings 17:9-10
And the sons of Israel did, secretly, things which were not right, against Yahweh their God, - and built for themselves high places in all their cities, from the watchmen's tower, to the fortified city.
Ezekiel 16:24-25
That thou didst build thee a brothel, - and didst make thee a height in every broadway:
Leviticus 26:1
Ye shall not make unto you idols, - neither image nor pillar, shall ye set up for yourselves, nor sculptured stone, shall ye place in your land, to bow yourselves down thereunto,-For, I Yahweh, am your God.
Deuteronomy 16:22
neither shalt thou set thee up a pillar, - which Yahweh thy God, doth hate.
1 Kings 3:2
Save only, that the people were sacrificing in the high places, - because there had not been built a house unto the Name of Yahweh, until those days,
1 Kings 14:15
Therefore will Yahweh smite Israel, as a reed shaketh in water, and will root out Israel, from off this goodly soil, which he gave unto their fathers, and will scatter them beyond the River (Euphrates), - because they have made their Sacred Stems, provoking Yahweh to anger:
2 Kings 21:3-7
He again built the high places, which Hezekiah his father had destroyed, - and reared altars to Baal, and made a Sacred Stem, as did Ahab, king of Israel, and bowed down to all the army of the heavens, and served them.
2 Chronicles 28:4
And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and upon the hills, - and under every green tree.
Jeremiah 2:20
For, in age-past time, I brake thy yoke, I tare off thy fetters, And thou saidst, I will not transgress, - Nevertheless, on every high hill, and under every green tree, wast thou lying down as an unchaste woman.
Jeremiah 3:13
Only, acknowledge thine iniquity, that against Yahweh thy God, hast thou transgressed, - and hast gone hither and thither unto foreigners under every green tree, and unto my voice, ye have not hearkened Declareth Yahweh.
Jeremiah 17:2
So long as their sons remember their altars, and their Sacred Stems, By the green tree, - Upon the high hills,
Ezekiel 20:28-29
When I brought them into the land as to which I had lifted up mine hand to give it them, then beheld they every high hill and every tangled tree And offered there their sacrifices, And presented there, their provoking gift, And placed there, their satisfying odour, And poured out there, their drink- offerings.
Micah 5:14
And I will uproot thy Sacred Stems out of thy midst, - and will destroy thy cities: