1 Kings 14:23
What does 1 Kings 14:23 mean?
A plain-English look at 1 Kings 14:23 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000For they also built them high places, and pillars, and Asherim, on every high hill, and under every green tree;
KJV
King James Version · 1611For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901For they also built them high places, and pillars, and Asherim, on every high hill, and under every green tree;
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949For they made high places and upright stones and wood pillars on every high hill and under every green tree;
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862And they build--also they--for themselves high places, and standing-pillars, and shrines, on every high height, and under every green tree;
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752For they also built them altars, and statues, and groves, upon every high hill, and under every green tree:
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890And they also built for themselves high places, and columns, and Asherahs 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.
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