1 Kings 14:23

In 11 translations

BSB

They also built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.

KJV

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

WEB

For they also built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.

ASV

For they also built them high places, and pillars, and Asherim, on every high hill, and under every green tree;

LSV

And they build—they also—for themselves high places, and standing-pillars, and Asherim, on every high height, and under every green tree;

YLT

And they build — also they — for themselves high places, and standing-pillars, and shrines, on every high height, and under every green tree;

DBY

And they also built for themselves high places, and columns, and Asherahs on every high hill and under every green tree;

DRC

For they also built them altars, and statues, and groves upon every high hill and under every green tree:

GNV

For they also made them hie places, and images, and groues on euery hie hill, and vnder euery greene tree.

JPS

For they also built them high places, and pillars, and Asherim, on every high hill, and under every leafy tree;

LXXE

And they built for themselves high places, and pillars, and planted groves on every high hill, and under every shady tree.

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WLC

וַיִּבְנ֨וּ גַם־הֵ֧מָּה לָהֶ֛ם בָּמ֥וֹת וּמַצֵּב֖וֹת וַאֲשֵׁרִ֑ים עַ֚ל כָּל־גִּבְעָ֣ה גְבֹהָ֔ה וְתַ֖חַת כָּל־עֵ֥ץ רַעֲנָֽן׃

LXX-Br

Καὶ ᾠκοδόμησαν ἑαυτοῖς ὑψηλὰ καὶ στήλας καὶ ἄλση ἐπὶ πάντα βουνὸν ὑψηλὸν, καὶ ὑποκάτω παντὸς ξύλου συσκίου.

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Cross-references most cited first

• Deuteronomy 12:2Destroy completely all the places where the nations you are dispossessing have served their gods—atop the high mountains, on the hills, and under every green tree.
• Isaiah 57:5who burn with lust among the oaks, under every luxuriant tree, who slaughter your children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks?
• 2 Kings 17:9–10The Israelites secretly did things against the LORD their God that were not right. From watchtower to fortified city, they built high places in all their cities. They set up for themselves sacred pillars and Asherah…
• Ezekiel 16:24–25you built yourself a mound and made yourself a lofty shrine in every public square. At the head of every street you built your lofty shrines and degraded your beauty. With increasing promiscuity, you spread your legs…
• 2 Kings 21:3–7For he rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed, and he raised up altars for Baal. He made an Asherah pole, as King Ahab of Israel had done, and he worshiped and served all the host of heaven.…
• Micah 5:14I will root out the Asherah poles from your midst and demolish your cities.
• 2 Chronicles 28:4And he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.
• Deuteronomy 16:22and do not set up for yourselves a sacred pillar, which the LORD your God hates.
• Ezekiel 20:28–29When I brought them into the land that I swore to give them and they saw any high hill or leafy tree, there they offered their sacrifices, presented offerings that provoked Me, sent up their fragrant incense, and…
• Leviticus 26:1“You must not make idols for yourselves or set up a carved image or sacred pillar; you must not place a sculpted stone in your land to bow down to it. For I am the LORD your God.
• 1 Kings 3:2The people, however, were still sacrificing on the high places because a house for the Name of the LORD had not yet been built.
• Jeremiah 2:20“For long ago you broke your yoke and tore off your chains, saying, ‘I will not serve!’ Indeed, on every high hill and under every green tree you lay down as a prostitute.
• 1 Kings 14:15For the LORD will strike Israel as a reed is shaken in the water. He will uproot Israel from this good land that He gave their fathers, and He will scatter them beyond the Euphrates, because they have made their…
• Jeremiah 17:2Even their children remember their altars and Asherah poles by the green trees and on the high hills.
• Jeremiah 3:13Only acknowledge your guilt, that you have rebelled against the LORD your God. You have scattered your favors to foreign gods under every green tree and have not obeyed My voice,’” declares the LORD.

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