Devine Scripture

1 Kings 14:23

1 Kings chapter 14 · verse 23 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

Context

v.22And Judah did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they committed, above all that their fathers had done.

v.23This passage

v.24and there were also sodomites in the land: they did according to all the abominations of the nations which Jehovah drove out before the children of Israel.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Deuteronomy 12:2

    Ye shall surely destroy all the places wherein the nations that ye shall dispossess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree:

  • 1 Kings 14:15

    For Jehovah will smite Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water; and he will root up Israel out of this good land which he gave to their fathers, and will scatter them beyond the River, because they have made their Asherim, provoking Jehovah to anger.

  • Micah 5:14

    and I will pluck up thine Asherim out of the midst of thee; and I will destroy thy cities.

  • Isaiah 57:5

    ye that inflame yourselves among the oaks, under every green tree; that slay the children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks?

  • Ezekiel 20:28

    For when I had brought them into the land, which I sware to give unto them, then they saw every high hill, and every thick tree, and they offered there their sacrifices, and there they presented the provocation of their offering; there also they made their sweet savor, and they poured out there their drink-offerings.

  • 2 Chronicles 28:4

    And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.