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1 Kings 14:23 KJV (With Strong’s)

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For they also built them highb places, and γimages, and grovesc, on every high hill, andd under every green tree.

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Ezek. 16:24‑25• ²⁴that thou didst also build unto thee a place of debauchery, and didst make thee a high place in every street:
²⁵thou didst build thy high place at every head of the way, and madest thy beauty to be abhorred, and thou didst open thy feet to every one that passed by, and multiply thy whoredom. (Ezek. 16:24‑25)

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or, standing images, or, statues.

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2 Kings 17:9‑10• ⁹And the children of Israel did secretly against Jehovah their God things that were not right; and they built them high places in all their cities, from the watchmen's tower to the fortified city.
¹⁰And they set them up columns and Asherahs on every high hill and under every green tree; (2 Kings 17:9‑10)

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Isa. 57:5• ⁵inflaming yourselves among the oaks under every green tree; slaying the children in the valleys under the clefts of the rocks? (Isa. 57:5)

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Jer. 3:13• ¹³Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against Jehovah thy God, and hast scattered thy ways to the strangers under every green tree, and ye have not obeyed my voice, saith Jehovah. (Jer. 3:13)

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built.

1 Kings 3:2• ²Only the people sacrificed in high places, because there was no house built unto the name of Jehovah, until those days. (1 Kings 3:2)

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Deut. 12:2• ²Ye shall utterly destroy all the places wherein the nations which ye shall dispossess have served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree; (Deut. 12:2)

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Isa. 57:5• ⁵inflaming yourselves among the oaks under every green tree; slaying the children in the valleys under the clefts of the rocks? (Isa. 57:5)

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Ezek. 16:24‑25• ²⁴that thou didst also build unto thee a place of debauchery, and didst make thee a high place in every street:
²⁵thou didst build thy high place at every head of the way, and madest thy beauty to be abhorred, and thou didst open thy feet to every one that passed by, and multiply thy whoredom. (Ezek. 16:24‑25)

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Ezek. 20:28‑29• ²⁸For when I had brought them into the land, for the which I lifted up mine 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 provocation to their offering: there also they made their sweet savour, and poured out there their drink offerings.
²⁹Then I said unto them, What is the high place whereunto ye go? And the name thereof is called Bamah unto this day. (Ezek. 20:28‑29)

images.

or, standing images, or statues.

Lev. 26:1• ¹Ye shall make yourselves no idols, nor rear yourselves carved image or statue, nor shall ye set up a figured stone in your land, to bow down unto it; for I [am] Jehovah your God. (Lev. 26:1)

groves.

Mic. 5:14• ¹⁴And I will pluck up thine Asherahs out of the midst of thee, and I will destroy thy cities. (Mic. 5:14)

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Deut. 12:2• ²Ye shall utterly destroy all the places wherein the nations which ye shall dispossess have served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree; (Deut. 12:2)

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2 Kings 17:9‑10• ⁹And the children of Israel did secretly against Jehovah their God things that were not right; and they built them high places in all their cities, from the watchmen's tower to the fortified city.
¹⁰And they set them up columns and Asherahs on every high hill and under every green tree; (2 Kings 17:9‑10)

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2 Kings 21:3‑7• ³For he built up again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, and made a grove, as did Ahab king of Israel; and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.
⁴And he built altars in the house of Jehovah, which Jehovah said, In Jerusalem will I put my name.
⁵And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of Jehovah.
⁶And he made his son pass through the fire, and observed times, and used enchantments, and dealt with familiar spirits and wizards: he wrought much wickedness in the sight of Jehovah to provoke him to anger.
⁷And he set a graven image of the grove that he had made in the house, of which Jehovah said to David, and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all tribes of Israel, will I put my name forever: (2 Kings 21:3‑7)

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2 Chron. 28:4• ⁴And he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree. (2 Chron. 28:4)

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

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Isa. 57:5• ⁵inflaming yourselves among the oaks under every green tree; slaying the children in the valleys under the clefts of the rocks? (Isa. 57:5)

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Jer. 3:13• ¹³Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against Jehovah thy God, and hast scattered thy ways to the strangers under every green tree, and ye have not obeyed my voice, saith Jehovah. (Jer. 3:13)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And they also built for themselves high places, and columnsa, and Asherahs on every high hill and under every green tree;

JND Translation Notes

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Or "statues," see Lev. 26.1; Deut 7.5.

W. Kelly Translation

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