1 Kings 14:23
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“They also built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.”
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“They also built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree.”
King James Version · Public Domain“For they also built them high places, and pillars, and Asherim, on every high hill, and under every green tree;”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“And they build--also they--for themselves high places, and standing-pillars, and shrines, on every high height, and under every green tree;”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo 1 Kings 14:23 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 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.
- 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.
- Deuteronomy 16:22and do not set up for yourselves a sacred pillar, which the LORD your God hates.
- 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.
- 1 Kings 3:3And Solomon loved the LORD and walked in the statutes of his father David, except that he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.
- 1 Kings 12:31Jeroboam also built shrines on the high places and appointed from every class of people priests who were not Levites.
- 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 Asherah poles, provoking the LORD to anger.
- 1 Kings 15:12He banished the male shrine prostitutes from the land and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
- 2 Kings 16:4And he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.
- 2 Kings 17:9The 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.
- 2 Kings 17:10They set up for themselves sacred pillars and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.
- 2 Kings 21:3For 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.
- 2 Chronicles 24:18They abandoned the house of the LORD, the God of their fathers, and served the Asherah poles and idols. So wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem for this guilt of theirs.
- 2 Chronicles 28:4And he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places, 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?
- 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.
- 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.
- Jeremiah 17:2Even their children remember their altars and Asherah poles by the green trees and on the high hills.
- Ezekiel 6:3You are to say: ‘O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD! This is what the Lord GOD says to the mountains and hills, to the ravines and valleys: I am about to bring a sword against you, and I will destroy your high places.
- Ezekiel 6:6Wherever you live, the cities will be laid waste and the high places will be demolished, so that your altars will be laid waste and desecrated, your idols smashed and obliterated, your incense altars cut down, and your works blotted out.
- Ezekiel 6:13Then you will know that I am the LORD, when their slain lie among their idols around their altars, on every high hill, on all the mountaintops, and under every green tree and leafy oak—the places where they offered fragrant incense to all their idols.
- Ezekiel 16:24you built yourself a mound and made yourself a lofty shrine in every public square.
- Ezekiel 20:28When 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 poured out their drink offerings.
- Micah 5:14I will root out the Asherah poles from your midst and demolish your cities.
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