23 For they also built for themselves (A)high[a] places, (B)sacred pillars, and (C)wooden images on every high hill and (D)under every green tree.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 14:23 Places for pagan worship

23 They also set up for themselves high places, sacred stones(A) and Asherah poles(B) on every high hill and under every spreading tree.(C)

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58 (A)For they provoked Him to anger with their (B)high places,
And moved Him to jealousy with their carved images.

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58 They angered him(A) with their high places;(B)
    they aroused his jealousy with their idols.(C)

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Inflaming yourselves with gods (A)under every green tree,
(B)Slaying the children in the valleys,
Under the clefts of the rocks?
Among the smooth (C)stones of the stream
Is your portion;
They, they, are your lot!
Even to them you have poured a drink offering,
You have offered a grain offering.
Should I receive comfort in (D)these?

“On(E) a lofty and high mountain
You have set (F)your bed;
Even there you went up
To offer sacrifice.

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You burn with lust among the oaks(A)
    and under every spreading tree;(B)
you sacrifice your children(C) in the ravines
    and under the overhanging crags.
The idols(D) among the smooth stones of the ravines are your portion;
    indeed, they are your lot.
Yes, to them you have poured out drink offerings(E)
    and offered grain offerings.
    In view of all this, should I relent?(F)
You have made your bed on a high and lofty hill;(G)
    there you went up to offer your sacrifices.(H)

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A Call to Repentance

The Lord said also to me in the days of Josiah the king: “Have you seen what (A)backsliding Israel has done? She has (B)gone up on every high mountain and under every green tree, and there played the harlot.

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Unfaithful Israel

During the reign of King Josiah,(A) the Lord said to me, “Have you seen what faithless(B) Israel has done? She has gone up on every high hill and under every spreading tree(C) and has committed adultery(D) there.

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13 Then you shall know that I am the Lord, when their slain are among their idols all around their altars, (A)on every high hill, (B)on all the mountaintops, (C)under every green tree, and under every thick oak, wherever they offered sweet incense to all their idols.

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13 And they will know that I am the Lord, when their people lie slain among their idols(A) around their altars, on every high hill and on all the mountaintops, under every spreading tree and every leafy oak(B)—places where they offered fragrant incense to all their idols.(C)

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