1 Kings 14:23

Judah builds high places, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles on every hill and under every tree. Their idolatry spreads throughout the land.

Cross-references · 15

• Deut 12:2You shall surely destroy all the places in which the nations that you shall dispossess served their gods, on the high mountains, and on the hills, and under every green tree.
• Isa 57:5you who inflame yourselves among the oaks, under every green tree; who kill the children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks?
• 2 Kgs 17:9–10The children of Israel secretly did things that were not right against Yahweh their God; and they built high places for themselves in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fortified city;
• Ezek 16:24–25“that you have built for yourselves a vaulted place, and have made yourselves a lofty place in every street.
• 2 Chr 28:4He sacrificed and burned incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.
• Jer 17:2Even their children remember their altars and their Asherah poles by the green trees on the high hills.
• Ezek 20:28–29For when I had brought them into the land, which I swore to give to them, then they saw every high hill, and every thick tree, and they offered there their sacrifices, and there they presented the provocation of their offering; there also they made their pleasant aroma, and they poured out there their drink offerings.
• Jer 3:13Only acknowledge your iniquity, that you have transgressed against Yahweh your God, and have scattered your ways to the strangers under every green tree, and you have not obeyed my voice,’ says Yahweh.”
• Lev 26:1“‘You shall make for yourselves no idols, and you shall not raise up an engraved image or a pillar, and you shall not place any figured stone in your land, to bow down to it; for I am Yahweh your God.
• Deut 16:22Neither shall you set yourself up a sacred stone which Yahweh your God hates.
• 1 Kgs 3:2However the people sacrificed in the high places, because there was not yet a house built for Yahweh’s name.
• Mic 5:14I will uproot your Asherah poles out from among you; and I will destroy your cities.
• 1 Kgs 14:15For Yahweh will strike Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water; and he will root up Israel out of this good land which he gave to their fathers, and will scatter them beyond the River, because they have made their Asherah poles, provoking Yahweh to anger.
• Jer 2:20“For long ago I broke off your yoke, and burst your bonds. You said, ‘I will not serve;’ for on every high hill and under every green tree you bowed yourself, playing the prostitute.
• 2 Kgs 21:3–7For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he raised up altars for Baal, and made an Asherah, as Ahab king of Israel did, and worshiped all the army of the sky, and served them.

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