1 Kings 14:23 Parallel Translations

They built worship sites for themselves and put up large stones and Asherah poles to worship on every high hill and under every large tree.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, 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;

BBE:

For they made high places and upright stones and wood pillars on every high hill 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;

ERV:

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

JPS:

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

WBS:

For they also built for themselves high places, and images and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree.

WEB:

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

1 Kings 14:23 Cross References

XREF:

Deuteronomy 12:2 "You shall utterly destroy all the places where the nations whom you shall dispossess serve their gods, on the high mountains and on the hills and under every green tree.

Deuteronomy 16:22 "You shall not set up for yourself a sacred pillar which the LORD your God hates.

1 Kings 14:15 "For the LORD will strike Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water; and He will uproot Israel from this good land which He gave to their fathers, and will scatter them beyond the Euphrates River, because they have made their Asherim, provoking the LORD to anger.

2 Kings 17:10 They set for themselves sacred pillars and Asherim on every high hill and under every green tree,

Isaiah 57:5 Who inflame yourselves among the oaks, Under every luxuriant tree, Who slaughter the children in the ravines, Under the clefts of the crags?

Jeremiah 2:20 "For long ago I broke your yoke And tore off your bonds; But you said, 'I will not serve!' For on every high hill And under every green tree You have lain down as a harlot.

Ezekiel 16:24 that you built yourself a shrine and made yourself a high place in every square. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

WES:

14:23 They also - Followed the example of the Israelites, although they were better instructed, and had the temple in their kingdom, and liberty of access to it, and the privilege of worshipping God in his own way, and the counsels, and sermons, and examples of the priests and Levites, and the dreadful example of Israel's horrid apostacy, to caution and terrify them. High places - Which was unlawful, and, now especially when the temple was built, and ready to receive them; unnecessary, and therefore expressed a greater contempt of God and his express command. Groves - Not only after the manner of the Heathens and Israelites, but against a direct and particular prohibition. Under every green tree - The people were universally corrupted: which is prodigious, all things considered, and is a clear evidence of the greatness and depth of the original corruption of man's nature.

MHC:

14:21-31 Here is no good said of Rehoboam, and much said to the disadvantage of his subjects. The abounding of the worst crimes, of the worst of the heathen, in Jerusalem, the city the Lord had chosen for his temple and his worship, shows that nothing can mend the hearts of fallen men but the sanctifying grace of the Holy Spirit. On this alone may we depend; for this let us daily pray, in behalf of ourselves and all around us. The splendour of their temple, the pomp of their priesthood, and all the advantages with which their religion was attended, could not prevail to keep them close to it; nothing less than the pouring out the Spirit will keep God's Israel in their allegiance to him. Sin exposes, makes poor, and weakens any people. Shishak, king of Egypt, came and took away the treasures. Sin makes the gold become dim, changes the most fine gold, and turns it into brass.

CONC:

Asherah Asherahs Asherim Ashe'rim Beneath Build Built Columns Green Groves Height Hill Images Leafy Luxuriant Pillars Places Poles Sacred Shrines Spreading Standing-pillars Stones Themselves Tree Upright Wood

Asherah Asherahs Asherim Ashe'rim Beneath Build Built Columns Green Groves Height High Hill Images Leafy Pillars Places Poles Sacred Shrines Standing-Pillars Stones Themselves Tree Upright Wood

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