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the Week of Proper 20 / Ordinary 25
the Week of Proper 20 / Ordinary 25
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1 Kings 14:23
For they built for themselves high places, holy objects and false gods on every high hill and under every green tree.
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Christian Standard Bible®
They also built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree;
They also built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree;
Hebrew Names Version
For they also built them high places, and pillars, and Asherim, on every high hill, and under every green tree;
For they also built them high places, and pillars, and Asherim, on every high hill, and under every green tree;
King James Version
For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree.
For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree.
English Standard Version
For they also built for themselves high places and pillars and Asherim on every high hill and under every green tree,
For they also built for themselves high places and pillars and Asherim on every high hill and under every green tree,
New Century Version
The people built stone pillars and places to worship gods and Asherah idols on every high hill and under every green tree.
The people built stone pillars and places to worship gods and Asherah idols on every high hill and under every green tree.
New English Translation
They even built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.
They even built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.
Amplified Bible
For they also built for themselves high places [to worship idols] and sacred pillars and Asherim [for the goddess Asherah]. These were on every high hill and under every luxuriant tree.
For they also built for themselves high places [to worship idols] and sacred pillars and Asherim [for the goddess Asherah]. These were on every high hill and under every luxuriant tree.
New American Standard Bible
For they, too, built for themselves high places, memorial stones, and Asherim on every high hill and under every luxuriant tree.
For they, too, built for themselves high places, memorial stones, and Asherim on every high hill and under every luxuriant tree.
Geneva Bible (1587)
For they also made them hie places, and images, and groues on euery hie hill, and vnder euery greene tree.
For they also made them hie places, and images, and groues on euery hie hill, and vnder euery greene tree.
Legacy Standard Bible
They also built for themselves high places and sacred pillars and Asherim on every high hill and beneath every green tree.
They also built for themselves high places and sacred pillars and Asherim on every high hill and beneath every green tree.
Contemporary English Version
They also built their own local shrines and stone images of foreign gods, and they set up sacred poles for worshiping the goddess Asherah on every hill and in the shade of large trees.
They also built their own local shrines and stone images of foreign gods, and they set up sacred poles for worshiping the goddess Asherah on every hill and in the shade of large trees.
Complete Jewish Bible
For they erected high places, standing-stones and sacred poles on every high hill and under every green tree.
For they erected high places, standing-stones and sacred poles on every high hill and under every green tree.
Darby Translation
And they also built for themselves high places, and columns, and Asherahs on every high hill and under every green tree;
And they also built for themselves high places, and columns, and Asherahs on every high hill and under every green tree;
Easy-to-Read Version
They built high places, memorial stones, and sacred poles. They built them on every high hill and under every green tree.
They built high places, memorial stones, and sacred poles. They built them on every high hill and under every green tree.
George Lamsa Translation
For they also built for themselves high places and statues and idols on every high hill and under every green tree.
For they also built for themselves high places and statues and idols on every high hill and under every green tree.
Good News Translation
They built places of worship for false gods and put up stone pillars and symbols of Asherah to worship on the hills and under shady trees.
They built places of worship for false gods and put up stone pillars and symbols of Asherah to worship on the hills and under shady trees.
Lexham English Bible
They also built for themselves high places and stone pillars and sacred poles on every high hill and under every green tree.
They also built for themselves high places and stone pillars and sacred poles on every high hill and under every green tree.
Literal Translation
And they built, they also, high places for themselves, and standing pillars, and Asherahs on every high hill, and under every green tree.
And they built, they also, high places for themselves, and standing pillars, and Asherahs on every high hill, and under every green tree.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
for they likewyse buylded them hye places, pilers, and groues vpo euery hye hill, and amonge all grene trees.
for they likewyse buylded them hye places, pilers, and groues vpo euery hye hill, and amonge all grene trees.
American Standard Version
For they also built them high places, and pillars, and Asherim, on every high hill, and under every green tree;
For they also built them high places, and pillars, and Asherim, on every high hill, and under every green tree;
Bible in Basic English
For they made high places and upright stones and wood pillars on every high hill and under every green tree;
For they made high places and upright stones and wood pillars on every high hill and under every green tree;
Bishop's Bible (1568)
For they also made them hie places, images, and groues on euery hie hill, and vnder euery thicke tree.
For they also made them hie places, images, and groues on euery hie hill, and vnder euery thicke tree.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
For they also built them high places, and pillars, and Asherim, on every high hill, and under every leafy tree;
For they also built them high places, and pillars, and Asherim, on every high hill, and under every leafy tree;
King James Version (1611)
For they also built them high places, and images, and groues on euery high hill, and vnder euery greene tree.
For they also built them high places, and images, and groues on euery high hill, and vnder euery greene tree.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And they built for themselves high places, and pillars, and planted groves on every high hill, and under every shady tree.
And they built for themselves high places, and pillars, and planted groves on every high hill, and under every shady tree.
English Revised Version
For they also built them high places, and pillars, and Asherim, on every high hill, and under every green tree;
For they also built them high places, and pillars, and Asherim, on every high hill, and under every green tree;
Berean Standard Bible
They also built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.
They also built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For also thei bildiden to hem silf auters, and ymagis, and wodis, on eche hiy hil, and vndur ech tree ful of bowis.
For also thei bildiden to hem silf auters, and ymagis, and wodis, on eche hiy hil, and vndur ech tree ful of bowis.
Young's Literal Translation
And they build -- also they -- for themselves high places, and standing-pillars, and shrines, on every high height, and under every green tree;
And they build -- also they -- for themselves high places, and standing-pillars, and shrines, on every high height, and under every green tree;
Update Bible Version
For they also built themselves high places, and pillars, and Asherim, on every high hill, and under every green tree;
For they also built themselves high places, and pillars, and Asherim, on every high hill, and under every green tree;
Webster's Bible Translation
For they also built for themselves high places, and images and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree.
For they also built for themselves high places, and images and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree.
World English Bible
For they also built them high places, and pillars, and Asherim, on every high hill, and under every green tree;
For they also built them high places, and pillars, and Asherim, on every high hill, and under every green tree;
New King James Version
For they also built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and wooden images on every high hill and under every green tree.
For they also built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and wooden images on every high hill and under every green tree.
New Living Translation
For they also built for themselves pagan shrines and set up sacred pillars and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.
For they also built for themselves pagan shrines and set up sacred pillars and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.
New Revised Standard
For they also built for themselves high places, pillars, and sacred poles on every high hill and under every green tree;
For they also built for themselves high places, pillars, and sacred poles on every high hill and under every green tree;
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, they also, built for themselves high places and pillars, and Sacred Stems, - upon every high hill, and under every green tree.
And, they also, built for themselves high places and pillars, and Sacred Stems, - upon every high hill, and under every green tree.
Douay-Rheims Bible
For they also built them altars, and statues, and groves, upon every high hill, and under every green tree:
For they also built them altars, and statues, and groves, upon every high hill, and under every green tree:
Revised Standard Version
For they also built for themselves high places, and pillars, and Ashe'rim on every high hill and under every green tree;
For they also built for themselves high places, and pillars, and Ashe'rim on every high hill and under every green tree;
New American Standard Bible (1995)
For they also built for themselves high places and sacred pillars and Asherim on every high hill and beneath every luxuriant tree.
For they also built for themselves high places and sacred pillars and Asherim on every high hill and beneath every luxuriant tree.
Contextual Overview
21 Now Solomon's son Rehoboam ruled in Judah. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he became king. And he ruled for seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city the Lord had chosen from all the families of Israel to put His name there. The name of Rehoboam's mother was Naamah of Ammon. 22 Judah did what was sinful in the eyes of the Lord. They made Him jealous with their sins, more than all their fathers had done. 23 For they built for themselves high places, holy objects and false gods on every high hill and under every green tree. 24 In their religion there were men in the land who sold the use of their bodies. They did all the hated things of the nations which the Lord drove away before the people of Israel. 25 In the fifth year of King Rehoboam, Shishak the king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem. 26 He took away the riches of the Lord's house and the riches of the king's house. He took everything. He even took all the body coverings of gold which Solomon had made. 27 So King Rehoboam made body coverings of brass in their place. He put them in the care of the captain of the soldiers who watched the door of the king's house. 28 Every time the king went into the house of the Lord, the soldiers would carry them and return them again to their room. 29 Now the rest of the acts of Rehoboam and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? 30 There was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam always.
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 Chedorlaomer king of Elam, Tidal king of Goiim, Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellasar, four kings against five.
They fought against Chedorlaomer king of Elam, Tidal king of Goiim, Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellasar, four kings against five.
Genesis 14:12
They also took Lot, the son of Abram's brother, who lived in Sodom, and all that belonged to him, and left.
They also took Lot, the son of Abram's brother, who lived in Sodom, and all that belonged to him, and left.
Genesis 14:15
Abram divided his army against them by night, he and his servants. They won the war against them, and followed them as far as Hobah, north of Damascus.
Abram divided his army against them by night, he and his servants. They won the war against them, and followed them as far as Hobah, north of Damascus.
Genesis 14:16
Then Abram returned with all the things they had taken. He also returned with his brother's son Lot and all that belonged to him, and the women and the people.
Then Abram returned with all the things they had taken. He also returned with his brother's son Lot and all that belonged to him, and the women and the people.
1 Kings 13:8
But the man of God said to the king, "I would not go with you if you were to give me half your house. I would not eat bread or drink water in this place.
But the man of God said to the king, "I would not go with you if you were to give me half your house. I would not eat bread or drink water in this place.
2 Kings 5:16
But Elisha said, "As the Lord lives, before Whom I stand, I will take nothing." Naaman tried to talk him into taking it, but he would not.
But Elisha said, "As the Lord lives, before Whom I stand, I will take nothing." Naaman tried to talk him into taking it, but he would not.
2 Kings 5:20
But Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, thought, "See, my owner has let Naaman the Syrian go without receiving the gift he brought. As the Lord lives, I will run after him and take something from him."
But Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, thought, "See, my owner has let Naaman the Syrian go without receiving the gift he brought. As the Lord lives, I will run after him and take something from him."
2 Corinthians 12:14
This is the third time I am ready to come to you. I want nothing from you. I want you, not your money. You are my children. Children should not have to help care for their parents. Parents should help their children.
This is the third time I am ready to come to you. I want nothing from you. I want you, not your money. You are my children. Children should not have to help care for their parents. Parents should help their children.
Hebrews 13:5
Keep your lives free from the love of money. Be happy with what you have. God has said, "I will never leave you or let you be alone."
Keep your lives free from the love of money. Be happy with what you have. God has said, "I will never leave you or let you be alone."
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.
