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1 Kings 14:23
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KJ21
For they also built for themselves high places, and images 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;
AMP
For they also built for themselves high places [to worship idols] and sacred pillars and Asherim [for the goddess Asherah]. These were on every high hill and under every luxuriant tree.
AMPC
For they also built themselves [idolatrous] high places, pillars, and Asherim [idolatrous symbols of the goddess Asherah] on every high hill and under every green tree.
BRG
For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree.
CSB
They also built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree;
CSBA
They also built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree;
CEB
They also built shrines, standing stones, and sacred poles on top of every high hill and under every green tree.
CJB
For they erected high places, standing-stones and sacred poles on every high hill and under every green tree.
CEV
They also built their own local shrines and stone images of foreign gods, and they set up sacred poles for worshiping the goddess Asherah on every hill and in the shade of large trees.
DARBY
And they also built for themselves high places, and columns, and Asherahs on every high hill and under every green tree;
DRA
For they also built them altars, and statues, and groves upon every high hill and under every green tree:
ERV
They built high places, memorial stones, and sacred poles. They built them on every high hill and under every green tree.
EASY
They built altars on the hills for themselves. They put up stone pillars and Asherah poles to worship. They did this on every high hill and under every big tree.
EHV
They built for themselves high places, sacred memorial stones, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every leafy tree.
ESV
For they also built for themselves high places and pillars and Asherim on every high hill and under every green tree,
ESVUK
For they also built for themselves high places and pillars and Asherim on every high hill and under every green tree,
EXB
The people built ·places to worship gods [L high places; 3:2] and pillars and Asherah ·idols [poles; 14:15] on every high hill and under every ·green [luxuriant; spreading] tree.
GNV
For they also made them high places, and images, and groves on every high hill, and under every green tree.
GW
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.
GNT
They built places of worship for false gods and put up stone pillars and symbols of Asherah to worship on the hills and under shady trees.
HCSB
They also built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree;
ICB
The people built stone pillars and places to worship false gods and Asherah idols. They built them on every high hill and under every green tree.
ISV
They erected high places, sacred pillars, and Asherim for themselves on every high hill and under every green tree.
JUB
For they also built themselves high places and statues, and groves 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.
AKJV
For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree.
LSB
They also built for themselves high places and sacred pillars and Asherim on every high hill and beneath every green tree.
LEB
They also built for themselves high places and stone pillars and sacred poles on every high hill and under every green tree.
TLB
They built shrines and obelisks and idols on every high hill and under every green tree.
MSG
Rehoboam son of Solomon was king in Judah. He was forty-one years old when he took the throne and was king for seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city God selected from all the tribes of Israel for the worship of his Name. Rehoboam’s mother was Naamah, an Ammonite. Judah was openly wicked before God, making him very angry. They set new records in sin, surpassing anything their ancestors had done. They built Asherah sex-and-religion shrines and set up sacred stones all over the place—on hills, under trees, wherever you looked. Worse, they had male sacred prostitutes, polluting the country outrageously—all the stuff that God had gotten rid of when he brought Israel into the land.
MEV
For they also built high places and images and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.
NOG
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.
NABRE
They, too, built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and asherahs, upon every high hill and under every green tree.
NASB
For they, too, built for themselves high places, memorial stones, and Asherim on every high hill and under every luxuriant tree.
NASB1995
For they also built for themselves high places and sacred pillars and Asherim on every high hill and beneath every luxuriant tree.
NCB
They also set up high places for themselves as well as sacred pillars and Asherah everywhere and under every green tree.
NCV
The people built stone pillars and places to worship gods and Asherah idols on every high hill and under every green tree.
NET
They even built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.
NIRV
Judah also set up for themselves high places for worship. They set up sacred stones. They set up poles used to worship the female god named Asherah. They did it on every high hill and under every green tree.
NIV
They also set up for themselves high places, sacred stones and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every spreading tree.
NIVUK
They also set up for themselves high places, sacred stones and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every spreading tree.
NKJV
For they also built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and wooden images on every high hill and under every green tree.
NLV
For they built for themselves high places, holy objects and false gods on every high hill and under every green tree.
NLT
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.
NRSVA
For they also built for themselves high places, pillars, and sacred poles on every high hill and under every green tree;
NRSVACE
For they also built for themselves high places, pillars, and sacred poles on every high hill and under every green tree;
NRSVCE
For they also built for themselves high places, pillars, and sacred poles on every high hill and under every green tree;
NRSVUE
For they also built for themselves high places, pillars, and sacred poles on every high hill and under every green tree;
OJB
For they also built them [idolatrous] high places, and matzevot (idol images), and Asherim [Canaanite female nature idols] on every high hill, and under every thickly foliaged green tree.
RGT
For they also made themselves high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree.
RSV
For they also built for themselves high places, and pillars, and Ashe′rim on every high hill and under every green tree;
RSVCE
For they also built for themselves high places, and pillars, and Ashe′rim on every high hill and under every green tree;
TLV
They also built for themselves high places, sacred pillars and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every leafy tree;
VOICE
They constructed high places and crafted holy pillars. They infected the pure earth with their sacred poles on every mountain and beneath every beautiful tree.
WEB
For they also built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.
WYC
For also they builded to themselves altars, and images, and woods (For they also built altars for themselves, and poles, and sacred groves), on each high hill, and under each tree full of boughs.
YLT
And they build -- also they -- for themselves high places, and standing-pillars, and shrines, on every high height, and under every green tree;
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