1 Kings 14:23 — Bible Verse (KJV)
“For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree.”
1 Kings 14:23 — King James Version (KJV), 1611
1 Kings 14:23 in 6 Bible Translations
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1 Kings 14:23 WEB — World English Bible (2000)
“For they also built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.”
1 Kings 14:23 — World English Bible
1 Kings 14:23 ASV — American Standard Version (1901)
“For they also built them high places, and pillars, and Asherim, on every high hill, and under every green tree; ”
1 Kings 14:23 — American Standard Version
1 Kings 14:23 YLT — Young's Literal Translation (1862)
“And they build--also they--for themselves high places, and standing-pillars, and shrines, on every high height, and under every green tree;”
1 Kings 14:23 — Young's Literal Translation
1 Kings 14:23 DBY — Darby Translation (1890)
“And they also built for themselves high places, and columns, and Asherahs on every high hill and under every green tree; ”
1 Kings 14:23 — Darby Translation
1 Kings 14:23 GEN — Geneva Bible (1599)
“For they also made them hie places, and images, and groues on euery hie hill, and vnder euery greene tree.”
1 Kings 14:23 — Geneva Bible
1 Kings 14:23 in Context — 1 Kings 14
21 And Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the Lord did choose out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. And his mother’s name was Naamah an Ammonitess.
22 And Judah did evil in the sight of the Lord, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they had committed, above all that their fathers had done.
23 For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree.
24 And there were also sodomites in the land: and they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the Lord cast out before the children of Israel.
25 And it came to pass in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem:
What Does 1 Kings 14:23 Mean?
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