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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 hast also built unto thee an eminent place, and hast made thee an high place in every street.
²⁵Thou hast built thy high place at every head of the way, and hast made thy beauty to be abhorred, and hast opened thy feet to every one that passed by, and multiplied thy whoredoms. (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 those things that were not right against the Lord their God, and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.
¹⁰And they set them up images and groves in every high hill, and under every green tree: (2 Kings 17:9‑10)

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Isa. 57:5• ⁵Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks? (Isa. 57:5)

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Jer. 3:13• ¹³Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against the Lord thy God, and hast scattered thy ways to the strangers under every green tree, and ye have not obeyed my voice, saith the Lord. (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 the Lord, 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 possess 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• ⁵Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks? (Isa. 57:5)

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Ezek. 16:24‑25• ²⁴That thou hast also built unto thee an eminent place, and hast made thee an high place in every street.
²⁵Thou hast built thy high place at every head of the way, and hast made thy beauty to be abhorred, and hast opened thy feet to every one that passed by, and multiplied thy whoredoms. (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 of their offering: there also they made their sweet savor, 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 you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye set up any image of stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I am the Lord your God. (Lev. 26:1)

groves.

Mic. 5:14• ¹⁴And I will pluck up thy groves out of the midst of thee: so will I 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 possess 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 those things that were not right against the Lord their God, and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.
¹⁰And they set them up images and groves in 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 the Lord, of which the Lord 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 the Lord.
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 the Lord, to provoke him to anger.
⁷And he set a graven image of the grove that 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, will I put my name for ever: (2 Kings 21:3‑7)

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2 Chron. 28:4• ⁴He sacrificed also and burnt incense in 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)

under every.

Isa. 57:5• ⁵Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks? (Isa. 57:5)

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