1 Kings 14:23

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.

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:

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BSB: They also built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.
KJV: For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree.
WEB: For they also built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.
ASV: For they also built them high places, and pillars, and Asherim, on every high hill, and under every green tree;
DARBY: And they also built for themselves high places, and columns, and Asherahs on every high hill and under every green tree;
BLB: For they even built for themselves high places, and pillars, and Asherah poles, on every high hill and under every green tree.

ÅB: Også de bygget seg offerhauger og gjorde seg støtter og Astartebilder på hver høy bakke og under hvert grønt tre;
OTB: For de bygde også for seg selv offerhauger, minnesteiner og Asjeraer på hver høyde og under hvert frodig tre.
B1930: Også de bygget sig offerhauger og gjorde sig støtter og Astarte-billeder på hver høi bakke og under hvert grønt tre;

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Deuteronomy 12:2
Ye 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:
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Isaiah 57:5
Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks?
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2 Kings 17:9–10
And 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.
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Ezekiel 16:24–25
That thou hast also built unto thee an eminent place, and hast made thee an high place in every street.
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Micah 5:14
And I will pluck up thy groves out of the midst of thee: so will I destroy thy cities.
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Ezekiel 20:28–29
For 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 savour, and poured out there their drink offerings.
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Jeremiah 3:13
Only 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.
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Jeremiah 2:20
For of old time I have broken thy yoke, and burst thy bands; and thou saidst, I will not transgress; when upon every high hill and under every green tree thou wanderest, playing the harlot.
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