1 Kings 14:23

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Deut 12:2 : 2 You shall completely destroy all the places where the nations you are dispossessing served their gods, on the high mountains, on the hills, and under every green tree:
  • Isa 57:5 : 5 Inflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the cliffs of the rocks?
  • 2 Kgs 17:9-9 : 9 The children of Israel secretly did things that were not right against the LORD their God, and they built for themselves high places in all their cities, from the watchtower to the fortified city. 10 They set up images and groves on every high hill and under every green tree.
  • Ezek 16:24-25 : 24 That you have also built yourself an eminent place, and have made yourself a high place in every street. 25 You have built your high place at every head of the way, and have made your beauty to be abhorred, and have opened your feet to everyone that passed by, and multiplied your whoredoms.
  • Ezek 20:28-29 : 28 For when I had brought them into the land, for which I lifted up my hand to give it to them, then they saw every high hill, and all the thick trees, and they offered there their sacrifices, and there they presented the provoking of their offering: there also they made their sweet savor, and poured out there their drink offerings. 29 Then I said to them, What is the high place to which you go? And its name is called Bamah to this day.
  • Mic 5:14 : 14 And I will uproot your wooden images from the midst of you; so will I destroy your cities.
  • 2 Kgs 21:3-7 : 3 For he rebuilt the high places that Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he erected altars for Baal, and made an Asherah pole, as Ahab king of Israel had done; and worshiped all the host of heaven, and served them. 4 And he built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, 'In Jerusalem I will put my name.' 5 And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD. 6 And he made his son pass through the fire, practiced divination, sought omens, and dealt with mediums and spiritists: he did much evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking him to anger. 7 And he set up the carved image of the Asherah he had made, in the house of which the LORD said to David and to Solomon his son, 'In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all tribes of Israel, I will put my name forever:'
  • 2 Chr 28:4 : 4 He also sacrificed and burned incense on the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.
  • Lev 26:1 : 1 You shall make no idols nor carved image, neither set up a standing image, nor shall you set up any image of stone in your land to bow down to it: for I am the LORD your God.
  • Jer 2:20 : 20 For from of old I have broken your yoke, and burst your bonds; and you said, I will not transgress; when upon every high hill and under every green tree you wandered, playing the harlot.
  • Jer 3:13 : 13 Only acknowledge your iniquity, that you have transgressed against the LORD your God, and have scattered your ways to the strangers under every green tree, and you have not obeyed my voice, says the LORD.
  • Jer 17:2 : 2 While their children remember their altars and their groves by the green trees upon the high hills.
  • Deut 16:22 : 22 Neither shall you set up for yourself any image, which the LORD your God hates.
  • 1 Kgs 3:2 : 2 But the people sacrificed at high places, because there was no house built for the name of the LORD until those days.
  • 1 Kgs 14:15 : 15 For the LORD shall strike Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water, and he shall uproot Israel out of this good land, which he gave to their fathers, and shall scatter them beyond the river, because they have made their groves, provoking the LORD to anger.

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  • 2 Kgs 17:8-12
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    8And they walked in the statutes of the nations whom the LORD had cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they had made.

    9The children of Israel secretly did things that were not right against the LORD their God, and they built for themselves high places in all their cities, from the watchtower to the fortified city.

    10They set up images and groves on every high hill and under every green tree.

    11There they burned incense on all the high places, as the nations had done whom the LORD carried away before them; and they did wicked things to provoke the LORD to anger.

    12For they served idols, of which the LORD had said to them, You shall not do this thing.

  • Jer 17:2
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    2While their children remember their altars and their groves by the green trees upon the high hills.

  • 2 Chr 28:4
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    4He also sacrificed and burned incense on the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.

  • 1 Kgs 14:22
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    22And Judah did evil in the sight of the LORD, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they committed, more than all that their fathers had done.

  • Deut 12:2-3
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    2You shall completely destroy all the places where the nations you are dispossessing served their gods, on the high mountains, on the hills, and under every green tree:

    3And you shall tear down their altars, break their pillars, and burn their groves with fire; and you shall cut down the carved images of their gods, and obliterate their names from that place.

  • Jer 3:6
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    6The LORD also said to me in the days of Josiah the king, Have you seen what backsliding Israel has done? She has gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there has played the harlot.

  • 2 Kgs 16:4
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    4And he sacrificed and burned incense in the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.

  • 2 Chr 24:18
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    18And they left the house of the LORD God of their fathers, and served groves and idols; and wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem for this their trespass.

  • Hos 4:13
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    13They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and elms, because the shade thereof is good. Therefore your daughters shall commit harlotry, and your spouses shall commit adultery.

  • Isa 57:5
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    5Inflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the cliffs of the rocks?

  • 1 Kgs 14:24
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    24And there were also male shrine prostitutes in the land: and they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.

  • 2 Chr 21:11
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    11Moreover, he made high places in the mountains of Judah and led the inhabitants of Jerusalem to commit idolatry and influenced Judah to sin.

  • 2 Kgs 23:13-15
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    13The high places that were before Jerusalem, which were to the right of the mount of Corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites, the king defiled.

    14And he smashed the images, cut down the groves, and filled their places with the bones of men.

    15Moreover, the altar that was at Bethel, and the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had made, both that altar and the high place he broke down, and burned the high place, and ground it to powder, and burned the Asherah.

  • Deut 16:21
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    21You shall not plant for yourself any grove of trees near to the altar of the LORD your God, which you shall make for yourself.

  • 2 Kgs 21:3
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    3For he rebuilt the high places that Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he erected altars for Baal, and made an Asherah pole, as Ahab king of Israel had done; and worshiped all the host of heaven, and served them.

  • 2 Chr 14:3
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    3For he took away the altars of the foreign gods, and the high places, and broke down the images, and cut down the groves.

  • Jer 11:13
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    13For according to the number of your cities were your gods, O Judah; and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem have you set up altars to that shameful thing, even altars to burn incense to Baal.

  • 2 Chr 33:3
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    3For he rebuilt the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down; he erected altars for Baal, made groves, and worshiped all the host of heaven and served them.

  • Exod 34:13
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    13But you shall destroy their altars, break their sacred pillars, and cut down their wooden images.

  • Judg 3:7
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    7And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and forgot the LORD their God, and served Baalim and the groves.

  • 2 Kgs 23:6-7
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    6And he brought out the Asherah from the house of the LORD, outside Jerusalem, to the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, ground it to powder, and cast its powder on the graves of the common people.

    7And he broke down the houses of the prostitutes, that were by the house of the LORD, where the women wove hangings for the Asherah.

  • 2 Kgs 17:16-17
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    16They left all the commandments of the LORD their God, made for themselves cast images, even two calves, made a grove, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served Baal.

    17They caused their sons and daughters to pass through the fire, practiced divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.

  • 2 Chr 31:1
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    1Now when all this was finished, all Israel who were present went out to the cities of Judah, and broke the images in pieces, and cut down the groves, and threw down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, in Ephraim also and Manasseh, until they had utterly destroyed them all. Then all the children of Israel returned, every man to his possession, into their own cities.

  • 2 Kgs 13:6
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    6Nevertheless, they did not depart from the sins of the house of Jeroboam, who made Israel sin, but walked in them, and the Asherah pole also remained in Samaria.

  • Ps 78:58
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    58For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their carved images.

  • Ezek 20:28
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    28For when I had brought them into the land, for which I lifted up my hand to give it to them, then they saw every high hill, and all the thick trees, and they offered there their sacrifices, and there they presented the provoking of their offering: there also they made their sweet savor, and poured out there their drink offerings.

  • 2 Chr 28:25
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    25And in every city of Judah, he made high places to burn incense to other gods, and provoked to anger the LORD God of his fathers.

  • 2 Kgs 17:29-30
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    29However, every nation made gods of their own and put them in the shrines of the high places which the Samaritans had made, each nation in the cities where they lived.

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

  • Isa 2:14
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    14And upon all the high mountains, and upon all the hills that are lifted up,

  • 2 Kgs 21:7
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    7And he set up the carved image of the Asherah he had made, in the house of which the LORD said to David and to Solomon his son, 'In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all tribes of Israel, I will put my name forever:'

  • Mic 5:14
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    14And I will uproot your wooden images from the midst of you; so will I destroy your cities.

  • Ezek 6:13
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    13Then shall you know that I am the LORD, when their slain men shall be among their idols around their altars, on every high hill, in all the tops of the mountains, and under every green tree, and under every thick oak, the places where they offered sweet aroma to all their idols.

  • Isa 1:29
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    29For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which you have desired, and you shall be confounded for the gardens that you have chosen.

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    19And all the houses also of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke the LORD to anger, Josiah took away, and did to them according to all the acts that he had done in Bethel.

  • Jer 11:17
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    17For the LORD of hosts, who planted you, has pronounced evil against you for the evil of the house of Israel and of the house of Judah, which they have done against themselves to provoke me to anger in offering incense to Baal.

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    35And they built the high places of Baal, which are in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire to Molech; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.

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    4Except that the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burned incense still on the high places.

  • 2 Chr 33:5
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    5And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD.

  • Jer 7:30
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    30For the children of Judah have done evil in my sight, says the LORD: they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to defile it.