New International Version (©2011)
They also set up for themselves high places, sacred stones and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every spreading tree.New Living Translation (©2007)
For they also built for themselves pagan shrines and set up sacred pillars and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree. English Standard Version (©2001)
For they also built for themselves high places and pillars and Asherim on every high hill and under every green tree, New American Standard Bible (©1995)
For they also built for themselves high places and sacred pillars and Asherim on every high hill and beneath every luxuriant tree. King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree. Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
They also built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree; International Standard Version (©2012)
They erected high places, sacred pillars, and Asherim for themselves on every high hill and under every green tree. NET Bible (©2006)
They even built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree. GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
They built worship sites for themselves and [put up] large stones and Asherah poles to worship on every high hill and under every large tree. King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
For they also built them high places, and images, and idol poles, on every high hill, and under every green tree. American King James Version
For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree. American Standard Version
For they also built them high places, and pillars, and Asherim, on every high hill, and under every green tree; Douay-Rheims Bible
For they also built them altars, and statues, and groves upon every high hill and under every green tree: Darby Bible Translation
And they also built for themselves high places, and columns, and Asherahs on every high hill and under every green tree; English Revised Version
For they also built them high places, and pillars, and Asherim, on every high hill, and under every green tree; Webster's Bible Translation
For they also built for themselves high places, and images and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree. World English Bible
For they also built them high places, and pillars, and Asherim, on every high hill, and under every green tree; Young's Literal Translation
And they build -- also they -- for themselves high places, and standing-pillars, and shrines, on every high height, and under every green tree; | | Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary 14:21-31 Here is no good said of Rehoboam, and much said to the disadvantage of his subjects. The abounding of the worst crimes, of the worst of the heathen, in Jerusalem, the city the Lord had chosen for his temple and his worship, shows that nothing can mend the hearts of fallen men but the sanctifying grace of the Holy Spirit. On this alone may we depend; for this let us daily pray, in behalf of ourselves and all around us. The splendour of their temple, the pomp of their priesthood, and all the advantages with which their religion was attended, could not prevail to keep them close to it; nothing less than the pouring out the Spirit will keep God's Israel in their allegiance to him. Sin exposes, makes poor, and weakens any people. Shishak, king of Egypt, came and took away the treasures. Sin makes the gold become dim, changes the most fine gold, and turns it into brass.
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 23. - For they also [i.e., they as well as the ten tribes] built them high places [i.e., houses of high places. See on 1 Kings 3:2 and 1 Kings 13:32] and images [Heb. pillars or statues (מַצֵּבות; LXX., στήλας). These were, no doubt, originally memorial pillars or stones, erected to commemorate some Divine manifestation, and with no thought of idolatry (see Genesis 31:13; Genesis 35:14, 20; Genesis 28:18). But the Canaanites erected pillars, which were also statues or images, to their god, Baal. Hence we read of the "image" (מַצֵּבָה) of Baal (2 Kings 3:2; 2 Kings 10:26, 27; cf. 18:4; 23. 14); and hence also we find such images frequently mentioned side by side with the so-called "groves," i.e., the "Asherahs" (ver. 15; Exodus 34:13; Deuteronomy 7:5; Deuteronomy 12:3; Deuteronomy 16:21, etc.) Both the Mazzebah and the Asherah, consequently, was an upright pillar or post, but the former was of stone, the latter of wood; the former dedicated to Baal, the god of nature, of generation; the latter to Ashtoreth, the goddess of nature and productive power. The gradual transition of the memorial pillar into the Baal statue is hinted at in Leviticus 26:1. It is observable that these idolatrous and immoral rites seem to have found a home in Judah before they were introduced into Israel] and groves [Asherahs, idols; see on ver. 15. This verse proves conclusively that the translation "grove" is a mistaken one] on every high hill, and under every green tree. [The phrase is from the Pentateuch, Deuteronomy 12:2; cf. Jeremiah 2:20; Jeremiah 3:6; Hosea 4:13. "Probably the evil example of Maachah, his favourite wife (2 Chronicles 11:20-22), whose idolatrous tastes were displayed under Asa (2 Chronicles 15:16), was not without a pernicious effect on Rehoboam" (Wordsworth).]
Gill's Exposition of the Entire BibleFor they also built them high places,.... Which, though allowed of, or at least connived at, before the temple was built, and when the tabernacle was unfixed, yet afterwards unlawful; and the tribe of Judah could have no excuse for them, who had the temple in their tribe: and images; contrary to the express command of God, Exodus 20:4, and groves on every high hill, and under every green tree; that is, set up idols, and temples for idols, amidst groves of trees, and under all green trees; as was the custom of the Heathens, who sacrificed on the heights of hills and tops of mountains, as was particularly the custom of the Persians, as both Herodotus (m) and Xenophon (n) relate; and with the Getae, a people in Thrace, was a mountain they reckoned sacred (o). (m) Clio, sive, l. 1. c. 131. (n) Cyropaedia, l. 8. c. 45. (o) Strabo Geograph. l. 7. p. 206.
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Rehoboam's Wicked Reign in Judah
21And 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. 22And 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. 23For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree.
Exodus 34:13 Break down their altars, smash their sacred stones and cut down their Asherah poles.
Deuteronomy 12:2 Destroy completely all the places on the high mountains, on the hills and under every spreading tree, where the nations you are dispossessing worship their gods.
Deuteronomy 16:22 and do not erect a sacred stone, for these the LORD your God hates.
1 Kings 14:15 And the LORD will strike Israel, so that it will be like a reed swaying in the water. He will uproot Israel from this good land that he gave to their ancestors and scatter them beyond the Euphrates River, because they aroused the LORD's anger by making Asherah poles.
1 Kings 15:12 He expelled the male shrine prostitutes from the land and got rid of all the idols his ancestors had made.
1 Kings 20:23 Meanwhile, the officials of the king of Aram advised him, "Their gods are gods of the hills. That is why they were too strong for us. But if we fight them on the plains, surely we will be stronger than they.
2 Kings 10:26 They brought the sacred stone out of the temple of Baal and burned it.
2 Kings 17:10 They set up sacred stones and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every spreading tree.
2 Kings 17:16 They forsook all the commands of the LORD their God and made for themselves two idols cast in the shape of calves, and an Asherah pole. They bowed down to all the starry hosts, and they worshiped Baal.
2 Kings 17:19 and even Judah did not keep the commands of the LORD their God. They followed the practices Israel had introduced.
Isaiah 57:5 You burn with lust among the oaks and under every spreading tree; you sacrifice your children in the ravines and under the overhanging crags.
Jeremiah 2:20 "Long ago you broke off your yoke and tore off your bonds; you said, 'I will not serve you!' Indeed, on every high hill and under every spreading tree you lay down as a prostitute.
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