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New Living Translation
1 Kings 14:23
For they also built for themselves pagan shrines and set up sacred pillars and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.
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Christian Standard Bible®
They also built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree;
They also built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree;
Hebrew Names Version
For they also built them high places, and pillars, and Asherim, on every high hill, and under every green tree;
For they also built them high places, and pillars, and Asherim, on every high hill, and under every green tree;
King James Version
For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree.
For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree.
English Standard Version
For they also built for themselves high places and pillars and Asherim on every high hill and under every green tree,
For they also built for themselves high places and pillars and Asherim on every high hill and under every green tree,
New Century Version
The people built stone pillars and places to worship gods and Asherah idols on every high hill and under every green tree.
The people built stone pillars and places to worship gods and Asherah idols on every high hill and under every green tree.
New English Translation
They even built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.
They even built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.
Amplified Bible
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.
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.
New American Standard Bible
For they, too, built for themselves high places, memorial stones, and Asherim on every high hill and under every luxuriant tree.
For they, too, built for themselves high places, memorial stones, and Asherim on every high hill and under every luxuriant tree.
Geneva Bible (1587)
For they also made them hie places, and images, and groues on euery hie hill, and vnder euery greene tree.
For they also made them hie places, and images, and groues on euery hie hill, and vnder euery greene tree.
Legacy Standard Bible
They also built for themselves high places and sacred pillars and Asherim on every high hill and beneath every green tree.
They also built for themselves high places and sacred pillars and Asherim on every high hill and beneath every green tree.
Contemporary English Version
They also built their own local shrines and stone images of foreign gods, and they set up sacred poles for worshiping the goddess Asherah on every hill and in the shade of large trees.
They also built their own local shrines and stone images of foreign gods, and they set up sacred poles for worshiping the goddess Asherah on every hill and in the shade of large trees.
Complete Jewish Bible
For they erected high places, standing-stones and sacred poles on every high hill and under every green tree.
For they erected high places, standing-stones and sacred poles 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;
And they also built for themselves high places, and columns, and Asherahs on every high hill and under every green tree;
Easy-to-Read Version
They built high places, memorial stones, and sacred poles. They built them on every high hill and under every green tree.
They built high places, memorial stones, and sacred poles. They built them on every high hill and under every green tree.
George Lamsa Translation
For they also built for themselves high places and statues and idols on every high hill and under every green tree.
For they also built for themselves high places and statues and idols on every high hill and under every green tree.
Good News Translation
They built places of worship for false gods and put up stone pillars and symbols of Asherah to worship on the hills and under shady trees.
They built places of worship for false gods and put up stone pillars and symbols of Asherah to worship on the hills and under shady trees.
Lexham English Bible
They also built for themselves high places and stone pillars and sacred poles on every high hill and under every green tree.
They also built for themselves high places and stone pillars and sacred poles on every high hill and under every green tree.
Literal Translation
And they built, they also, high places for themselves, and standing pillars, and Asherahs on every high hill, and under every green tree.
And they built, they also, high places for themselves, and standing pillars, and Asherahs on every high hill, and under every green tree.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
for they likewyse buylded them hye places, pilers, and groues vpo euery hye hill, and amonge all grene trees.
for they likewyse buylded them hye places, pilers, and groues vpo euery hye hill, and amonge all grene trees.
American Standard Version
For they also built them high places, and pillars, and Asherim, on every high hill, and under every green tree;
For they also built them high places, and pillars, and Asherim, on every high hill, and under every green 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;
For they made high places and upright stones and wood pillars on every high hill and under every green tree;
Bishop's Bible (1568)
For they also made them hie places, images, and groues on euery hie hill, and vnder euery thicke tree.
For they also made them hie places, images, and groues on euery hie hill, and vnder euery thicke tree.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
For they also built them high places, and pillars, and Asherim, on every high hill, and under every leafy tree;
For they also built them high places, and pillars, and Asherim, on every high hill, and under every leafy tree;
King James Version (1611)
For they also built them high places, and images, and groues on euery high hill, and vnder euery greene tree.
For they also built them high places, and images, and groues on euery high hill, and vnder euery greene tree.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And they built for themselves high places, and pillars, and planted groves on every high hill, and under every shady tree.
And they built for themselves high places, and pillars, and planted groves on every high hill, and under every shady tree.
English Revised Version
For they also built them high places, and pillars, and Asherim, on every high hill, and under every green tree;
For they also built them high places, and pillars, and Asherim, on every high hill, and under every green tree;
Berean Standard Bible
They also built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.
They also built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For also thei bildiden to hem silf auters, and ymagis, and wodis, on eche hiy hil, and vndur ech tree ful of bowis.
For also thei bildiden to hem silf auters, and ymagis, and wodis, on eche hiy hil, and vndur ech tree ful of bowis.
Young's 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;
And they build -- also they -- for themselves high places, and standing-pillars, and shrines, on every high height, and under every green tree;
Update Bible Version
For they also built themselves high places, and pillars, and Asherim, on every high hill, and under every green tree;
For they also built themselves high places, and pillars, and Asherim, on every high hill, and under every green tree;
Webster's Bible Translation
For they also built for themselves high places, and images and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree.
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;
For they also built them high places, and pillars, and Asherim, on every high hill, and under every green tree;
New King James Version
For they also built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and wooden images on every high hill and under every green tree.
For they also built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and wooden images on every high hill and under every green tree.
New Life Bible
For they built for themselves high places, holy objects and false gods on every high hill and under every green tree.
For they built for themselves high places, holy objects and false gods on every high hill and under every green tree.
New Revised Standard
For they also built for themselves high places, pillars, and sacred poles on every high hill and under every green tree;
For they also built for themselves high places, pillars, and sacred poles on every high hill and under every green tree;
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, they also, built for themselves high places and pillars, and Sacred Stems, - upon every high hill, and under every green tree.
And, they also, built for themselves high places and pillars, and Sacred Stems, - upon every high hill, and under every green tree.
Douay-Rheims Bible
For they also built them altars, and statues, and groves, upon every high hill, and under every green tree:
For they also built them altars, and statues, and groves, upon every high hill, and under every green tree:
Revised Standard Version
For they also built for themselves high places, and pillars, and Ashe'rim on every high hill and under every green tree;
For they also built for themselves high places, and pillars, and Ashe'rim on every high hill and under every green tree;
New American Standard Bible (1995)
For they also built for themselves high places and sacred pillars and Asherim on every high hill and beneath every luxuriant tree.
For they also built for themselves high places and sacred pillars and Asherim on every high hill and beneath every luxuriant tree.
Contextual Overview
21 Meanwhile, Rehoboam son of Solomon was king in Judah. He was forty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city the Lord had chosen from among all the tribes of Israel as the place to honor his name. Rehoboam's mother was Naamah, an Ammonite woman. 22 During Rehoboam's reign, the people of Judah did what was evil in the Lord 's sight, provoking his anger with their sin, for it was even worse than that of their ancestors. 23 For they also built for themselves pagan shrines and set up sacred pillars and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree. 24 There were even male and female shrine prostitutes throughout the land. The people imitated the detestable practices of the pagan nations the Lord had driven from the land ahead of the Israelites. 25 In the fifth year of King Rehoboam's reign, King Shishak of Egypt came up and attacked Jerusalem. 26 He ransacked the treasuries of the Lord 's Temple and the royal palace; he stole everything, including all the gold shields Solomon had made. 27 King Rehoboam later replaced them with bronze shields as substitutes, and he entrusted them to the care of the commanders of the guard who protected the entrance to the royal palace. 28 Whenever the king went to the Temple of the Lord , the guards would also take the shields and then return them to the guardroom. 29 The rest of the events in Rehoboam's reign and everything he did are recorded in The Book of the History of the Kings of Judah. 30 There was constant war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam.
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
built: 1 Kings 3:2, Deuteronomy 12:2, Isaiah 57:5, Ezekiel 16:24, Ezekiel 16:25, Ezekiel 20:28, Ezekiel 20:29
images: or, standing images, or statues, Leviticus 26:1
groves: Micah 5:14, Deuteronomy 12:2, 2 Kings 17:9, 2 Kings 17:10, 2 Kings 21:3-7, 2 Chronicles 28:4, Jeremiah 17:2
under every: Isaiah 57:5, Jeremiah 3:13
Reciprocal: Leviticus 17:5 - in the open 1 Kings 14:15 - provoking 1 Kings 15:12 - all the idols 1 Kings 20:23 - Their gods 1 Kings 22:43 - the high 2 Kings 10:26 - images 2 Kings 16:4 - on the hills 2 Kings 17:16 - a grove 2 Kings 17:19 - Also Judah 2 Kings 23:6 - the grove 2 Chronicles 24:18 - And they left 2 Chronicles 33:3 - made groves Jeremiah 3:6 - she is Ezekiel 6:13 - upon Hosea 4:14 - and they Hosea 10:1 - images
Cross-References
Genesis 14:9
They fought against King Kedorlaomer of Elam, King Tidal of Goiim, King Amraphel of Babylonia, and King Arioch of Ellasar—four kings against five.
They fought against King Kedorlaomer of Elam, King Tidal of Goiim, King Amraphel of Babylonia, and King Arioch of Ellasar—four kings against five.
Genesis 14:12
They also captured Lot—Abram's nephew who lived in Sodom—and carried off everything he owned.
They also captured Lot—Abram's nephew who lived in Sodom—and carried off everything he owned.
Genesis 14:15
There he divided his men and attacked during the night. Kedorlaomer's army fled, but Abram chased them as far as Hobah, north of Damascus.
There he divided his men and attacked during the night. Kedorlaomer's army fled, but Abram chased them as far as Hobah, north of Damascus.
Genesis 14:16
Abram recovered all the goods that had been taken, and he brought back his nephew Lot with his possessions and all the women and other captives.
Abram recovered all the goods that had been taken, and he brought back his nephew Lot with his possessions and all the women and other captives.
1 Kings 13:8
But the man of God said to the king, "Even if you gave me half of everything you own, I would not go with you. I would not eat or drink anything in this place.
But the man of God said to the king, "Even if you gave me half of everything you own, I would not go with you. I would not eat or drink anything in this place.
2 Kings 5:16
But Elisha replied, "As surely as the Lord lives, whom I serve, I will not accept any gifts." And though Naaman urged him to take the gift, Elisha refused.
But Elisha replied, "As surely as the Lord lives, whom I serve, I will not accept any gifts." And though Naaman urged him to take the gift, Elisha refused.
2 Kings 5:20
But Gehazi, the servant of Elisha, the man of God, said to himself, "My master should not have let this Aramean get away without accepting any of his gifts. As surely as the Lord lives, I will chase after him and get something from him."
But Gehazi, the servant of Elisha, the man of God, said to himself, "My master should not have let this Aramean get away without accepting any of his gifts. As surely as the Lord lives, I will chase after him and get something from him."
2 Corinthians 12:14
Now I am coming to you for the third time, and I will not be a burden to you. I don't want what you have—I want you. After all, children don't provide for their parents. Rather, parents provide for their children.
Now I am coming to you for the third time, and I will not be a burden to you. I don't want what you have—I want you. After all, children don't provide for their parents. Rather, parents provide for their children.
Hebrews 13:5
Don't love money; be satisfied with what you have. For God has said, "I will never fail you. I will never abandon you."
Don't love money; be satisfied with what you have. For God has said, "I will never fail you. I will never abandon you."
Gill's Notes on the Bible
For they also built them high places,.... Which, though allowed of, or at least connived at, before the temple was built, and when the tabernacle was unfixed, yet afterwards unlawful; and the tribe of Judah could have no excuse for them, who had the temple in their tribe:
and images; contrary to the express command of God, Exodus 20:4,
and groves on every high hill, and under every green tree; that is, set up idols, and temples for idols, amidst groves of trees, and under all green trees; as was the custom of the Heathens, who sacrificed on the heights of hills and tops of mountains, as was particularly the custom of the Persians, as both Herodotus m and Xenophon n relate; and with the Getae, a people in Thrace, was a mountain they reckoned sacred o.
m Clio, sive, l. 1. c. 131. n Cyropaedia, l. 8. c. 45. o Strabo Geograph. l. 7. p. 206.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The words “they also” are emphatic. Not only did the Israelites make themselves high places 1Ki 12:31; 1 Kings 13:32, but the people of Judah also. The “high places,” which are said to have been “built,” were probably small shrines or tabernacles hung with bright-colored tapestry Ezekiel 16:16, like the “sacred tent” of the Carthaginians.
The “images” were rather “pillars” (Genesis 28:18 note).
Groves - See 1 Kings 14:15, note. The “groves,” it will be observed, were “built” on high hills and “under green trees.”
Under every green tree - i. e., under all those remarkable trees which, standing singly about the land, were landmarks to their respective neighborhoods, and places of resort to travelers, who gladly rested under their shade Deuteronomy 12:2.
