列王纪上 14:23

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

他們又為自己在各高岡上，各茂盛樹下建造邱壇、神柱和亞舍拉。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
因 为 他 们 在 各 高 冈 上 ， 各 青 翠 树 下 筑 坛 ， 立 柱 像 和 木 偶 。

Contextual Overview

²¹ Solomon's son Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he became king of Judah. His mother was Naamah from Ammon. Rehoboam ruled in Jerusalem for seventeen years. (The Lord had chosen that city from all the land of Israel as the place where he would be worshiped.) ²² The people of Judah did what the Lord said was wrong. Their sins made the Lord very angry, even more angry than he had been at their ancestors. ²³ The people built stone pillars and places to worship gods and Asherah idols on every high hill and under every green tree. ²⁴ There were even male prostitutes in the land. They acted like the people who had lived in the land before the Israelites. They had done many evil things, and God had taken the land away from them. ²⁵ During the fifth year Rehoboam was king, Shishak king of Egypt attacked Jerusalem. ²⁶ He took the treasures from the Temple of the Lord and the king's palace. He took everything, even the gold shields Solomon had made. ²⁷ So King Rehoboam made bronze shields to put in their place and gave them to the commanders of the guards for the palace gates. ²⁸ Whenever the king went to the Temple of the Lord , the guards carried the shields. Later, they would put them back in the guardroom. ²⁹ Everything else King Rehoboam did is written in the book of the history of the kings of Judah. ³⁰ There was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam the whole time.

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 Kedorlaomer king of Elam, Tidal king of Goiim, Amraphel king of Babylonia, and Arioch king of Ellasar—four kings fighting against five.

Genesis 14:12
They took Lot, Abram's nephew who was living in Sodom, and everything he owned. Then they left.

Genesis 14:15
That night he divided his men into groups, and they made a surprise attack against the enemy. They chased them all the way to Hobah, north of Damascus.

Genesis 14:16
Then Abram brought back everything the enemy had stolen, the women and the other people, and Lot, and everything Lot owned.

1 Kings 13:8
But the man of God answered the king, "Even if you gave me half of your kingdom, I would not go with you. I will not eat or drink anything in this place.

2 Kings 5:16
But Elisha said, "As surely as the Lord lives whom I serve, I won't accept anything." Naaman urged him to take the gift, but he refused.

2 Kings 5:20
Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, thought, "My master has not accepted what Naaman the Aramean brought. As surely as the Lord lives, I'll run after him and get something from him."

2 Corinthians 12:14
I am now ready to visit you the third time, and I will not be a burden to you. I want nothing from you, except you. Children should not have to save up to give to their parents. Parents should save to give to their children.

Hebrews 13:5
Keep your lives free from the love of money, and be satisfied with what you have. God has said, "I will never leave you; I will never abandon you." Deuteronomy 31:6

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.