1 Kings 14:23

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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  • Deut 12:2 : 2 You are to give up to the curse all those places where the nations, whom you are driving out, gave worship to their gods, on the high mountains and the hills and under every green tree:
  • Isa 57:5 : 5 You who are burning with evil desire among the oaks, under every green tree; putting children to death in the valleys, under the cracks of the rocks?
  • 2 Kgs 17:9-9 : 9 And the children of Israel did secretly against the Lord their God things which were not right, building high places for themselves in all their towns, from the tower of the watchmen to the walled town. 10 They put up pillars of stone and wood on every high hill and under every green tree:
  • Ezek 16:24-25 : 24 That you made for yourself an arched room in every open place. 25 You put up your high places at the top of every street, and made the grace of your form a disgusting thing, opening your feet to everyone who went by, increasing your loose ways.
  • Ezek 20:28-29 : 28 For when I had taken them into the land which I made an oath to give to them, then they saw every high hill and every branching tree and made their offerings there, moving me to wrath by their offerings; and there the sweet smell of their offerings went up and their drink offerings were drained out. 29 Then I said to them, What is this high place where you go to no purpose? And it is named Bamah to this day.
  • Mic 5:14 : 14 And my punishment will be effected on the nations with such burning wrath as they have not had word of.
  • 2 Kgs 21:3-7 : 3 He put up again the high places which had been pulled down by Hezekiah his father; he made altars for Baal, and an Asherah, as Ahab, king of Israel, had done; he was a worshipper and servant of all the stars of heaven. 4 And he put up altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, In Jerusalem will I put my name. 5 And he put up altars for all the stars of heaven in the two outer squares of the house of the Lord. 6 And he made his son go through the fire, and made use of secret arts and signs for reading the future; he gave positions to those who had control of spirits and to wonder-workers; he did much evil in the eyes of the Lord, moving him to wrath. 7 He put the image of Asherah which he had made in the house of which the Lord had said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, the town which I have made mine out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my name for ever.
  • 2 Chr 28:4 : 4 And he made offerings and had perfumes burned in the high places and on the hills and under every green tree.
  • Lev 26:1 : 1 Do not make images of false gods, or put up an image cut in stone or a pillar or any pictured stone in your land, to give worship to it; for I am the Lord your God.
  • Jer 2:20 : 20 For in the past, your yoke was broken by your hands and your cords parted; and you said, I will not be your servant; for on every high hill and under every branching tree, your behaviour was like that of a loose woman
  • Jer 3:13 : 13 Only be conscious of your sin, the evil you have done against the Lord your God; you have gone with strange men under every branching tree, giving no attention to my voice, says the Lord.
  • Jer 17:2 : 2 Their altars and their wood pillars under every branching tree, on the high hills and the mountains in the field.
  • Deut 16:22 : 22 You are not to put up stone pillars, for they are hated by the Lord your God.
  • 1 Kgs 3:2 : 2 But all this time the people were making their offerings in the high places, because no house had been put up to the name of the Lord till those days.
  • 1 Kgs 14:15 : 15 And even now the hand of the Lord has come down on Israel, shaking it like a river-grass in the water; and, uprooting Israel from this good land, which he gave to their fathers, he will send them this way and that on the other side of the River; because they have made for themselves images, moving the Lord to wrath.

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  • 2 Kgs 17:8-12
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    90%

    8 Living by the rules of the nations whom the Lord had sent out from before the children of Israel.

    9 And the children of Israel did secretly against the Lord their God things which were not right, building high places for themselves in all their towns, from the tower of the watchmen to the walled town.

    10 They put up pillars of stone and wood on every high hill and under every green tree:

    11 Burning their offerings in all the high places, as those nations did whom the Lord sent away from before them; they did evil things, moving the Lord to wrath;

    12 And they made themselves servants of disgusting things, though the Lord had said, You are not to do this.

  • Jer 17:2
    83%

    2 Their altars and their wood pillars under every branching tree, on the high hills and the mountains in the field.

  • 2 Chr 28:4
    79%

    4 And he made offerings and had perfumes burned in the high places and on the hills and under every green tree.

  • 1 Kgs 14:22
    76%

    22 And Judah did evil in the eyes of the Lord, and made him more angry than their fathers had done by their sins.

  • Deut 12:2-3
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    76%

    2 You are to give up to the curse all those places where the nations, whom you are driving out, gave worship to their gods, on the high mountains and the hills and under every green tree:

    3 Their altars and their pillars are to be broken down, and their holy trees burned with fire, and the images of their gods cut down; you are to take away their names out of that place.

  • Jer 3:6
    76%

    6 And the Lord said to me in the days of Josiah the king, Have you seen what Israel, turning away from me, has done? She has gone up on every high mountain and under every branching tree, acting like a loose woman there.

  • 2 Kgs 16:4
    76%

    4 And he made offerings, burning them in the high places and on the hills and under every green tree.

  • 2 Chr 24:18
    76%

    18 And they gave up the house of the Lord God of their fathers, and became worshippers of pillars of wood and of the images; and because of this sin of theirs, wrath came on Judah and Jerusalem.

  • Hos 4:13
    76%

    13 They make offerings on the tops of mountains, burning perfumes in high places, under trees of every sort, because their shade is good: and so your daughters are given up to loose ways and your brides are false to their husbands.

  • Isa 57:5
    75%

    5 You who are burning with evil desire among the oaks, under every green tree; putting children to death in the valleys, under the cracks of the rocks?

  • 1 Kgs 14:24
    75%

    24 And more than this, there were those in the land who were used for sex purposes in the worship of the gods, doing the same disgusting crimes as the nations which the Lord had sent out before the children of Israel.

  • 2 Chr 21:11
    75%

    11 And more than this, he made high places in the mountains of Judah, teaching the people of Jerusalem to go after false gods, and guiding Judah away from the true way.

  • 2 Kgs 23:13-15
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    74%

    13 And the high places before Jerusalem, on the south side of the mountain of destruction, which Solomon, king of Israel, had made for Ashtoreth, the disgusting god of the Zidonians, and for Chemosh, the disgusting god of Moab, and for Milcom, the disgusting god of the children of Ammon, the king made unclean.

    14 The stone pillars were broken to bits and the wood pillars cut down, and the places where they had been were made full of the bones of the dead.

    15 And the altar at Beth-el, and the high place put up by Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, who made Israel do evil, that altar and that high place were pulled down; and the high place was burned and crushed to dust and the Asherah was burned.

  • Deut 16:21
    74%

    21 Let no holy tree of any sort be planted by the altar of the Lord your God which you will make.

  • 2 Kgs 21:3
    73%

    3 He put up again the high places which had been pulled down by Hezekiah his father; he made altars for Baal, and an Asherah, as Ahab, king of Israel, had done; he was a worshipper and servant of all the stars of heaven.

  • 2 Chr 14:3
    73%

    3 For he took away the altars of strange gods and the high places, and had the upright stones broken and the wood pillars cut down;

  • Jer 11:13
    73%

    13 For the number of your gods is as the number of your towns, O Judah; and for every street in Jerusalem you have put up altars to the Baal for burning perfumes to the Baal.

  • 2 Chr 33:3
    73%

    3 For he put up again the high places which had been pulled down by his father Hezekiah; and he made altars for the Baals, and pillars of wood, and was a worshipper and servant of all the stars of heaven;

  • Exod 34:13
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    13 But their altars are to be overturned and their pillars broken and their images cut down:

  • Judg 3:7
    73%

    7 And the children of Israel did evil in the eyes of the Lord, and put out of their minds the Lord their God, and became servants to the Baals and the Astartes.

  • 2 Kgs 23:6-7
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    72%

    6 And he took the Asherah from the house of the Lord, outside Jerusalem to the stream Kidron, burning it by the stream and crushing it to dust, and he put the dust on the place where the bodies of the common people were put to rest.

    7 And he had the houses pulled down of those who were used for sex purposes in the house of the Lord, where women were making robes for the Asherah.

  • 2 Kgs 17:16-17
    2 verses
    72%

    16 And turning their backs on all the orders which the Lord had given them, they made for themselves images of metal, and the image of Asherah, worshipping all the stars of heaven and becoming servants to Baal.

    17 And they made their sons and their daughters go through the fire, and they made use of secret arts and unnatural powers, and gave themselves up to doing evil in the eyes of the Lord, till he was moved to wrath.

  • 2 Chr 31:1
    72%

    1 Now when all this was over, all the men of Israel who were present went out into the towns of Judah, causing the stone pillars to be broken up and the wood pillars to be cut down, pulling down the high places and the altars in all Judah and Benjamin, as well as in Ephraim and Manasseh, till all were gone. Then all the children of Israel went back to their towns, every man to his property.

  • 2 Kgs 13:6
    72%

    6 But still they did not give up the sin of Jeroboam, which he made Israel do, but went on with it; and there was an image of Asherah in Samaria.)

  • Ps 78:58
    72%

    58 They made him angry with their high places; moving him to wrath with their images.

  • Ezek 20:28
    72%

    28 For when I had taken them into the land which I made an oath to give to them, then they saw every high hill and every branching tree and made their offerings there, moving me to wrath by their offerings; and there the sweet smell of their offerings went up and their drink offerings were drained out.

  • 2 Chr 28:25
    71%

    25 And in every town of Judah he made high places where perfumes were burned to other gods, awaking the wrath of the Lord, the God of his fathers.

  • 2 Kgs 17:29-30
    2 verses
    71%

    29 And every nation made gods for themselves, and put them in the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation in the towns where they were living.

    30 The men of Babylon made Succoth-benoth, and the men of Cuth made Nergal, and the men of Hamath made Ashima,

  • Isa 2:14
    71%

    14 And on all the high mountains, and on all the hills which are lifted up;

  • 2 Kgs 21:7
    71%

    7 He put the image of Asherah which he had made in the house of which the Lord had said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, the town which I have made mine out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my name for ever.

  • Mic 5:14
    71%

    14 And my punishment will be effected on the nations with such burning wrath as they have not had word of.

  • Ezek 6:13
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    13 And you will be certain that I am the Lord, when their dead men are stretched among their images round about their altars on every high hill, on all the tops of the mountains, and under every branching tree, and under every thick oak-tree, the places where they made sweet smells to all their images.

  • Isa 1:29
    70%

    29 For you will be put to shame because of the trees of your desire, and because of the gardens of your pleasure.

  • 2 Kgs 23:19
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    19 Then Josiah took away all the houses of the high places in the towns of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had put up, moving the Lord to wrath, and he did with them as he had done in Beth-el.

  • Jer 11:17
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    17 For the Lord of armies, by whom you were planted, has given his decision for evil against you, because of the evil which the people of Israel and the people of Judah have done, In moving me to wrath by offering perfumes to the Baal.

  • Jer 32:35
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    35 And they put up the high places of the Baal in the valley of the son of Hinnom, making their sons and their daughters go through the fire to Molech; which I did not give them orders to do, and it never came into my mind that they would do this disgusting thing, causing Judah to be turned out of the way.

  • 2 Kgs 15:4
    70%

    4 But he did not take away the high places, and the people still went on making offerings and burning them in the high places.

  • 2 Chr 33:5
    70%

    5 And he made altars for all the stars of heaven in the two outer squares of the house of the Lord.

  • Jer 7:30
    70%

    30 For the children of Judah have done what is evil in my eyes, says the Lord: they have put their disgusting images in the house which is named by my name, making it unclean.