1 Kings 14:23
“For they also built them high places, and images, and groues on euery high hill, and vnder euery greene tree.”
1611 King James Version (KJV)
Viewing the original 1611 KJV with archaic English spelling.
Click to switch to the Standard KJV.
1 Kings 14:23 Context
21¶ And Rehoboam the sonne of Solomon reigned in Iudah: Rehoboam was fourtie and one yeeres olde when he began to reigne, and hee reigned seuenteene yeeres in Ierusalem, the citie which the Lord did chuse out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his Name there: and his mothers name was Naamah an Ammonitesse. 22And Iudah did euill in the sight of the Lord, and they prouoked him to iealousie with their sinnes which they had committed, aboue all that their fathers had done. 23For they also built them high places, and images, and groues on euery high hill, and vnder euery greene tree. 24And 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 passe in the fift yeere of king Rehoboam, that Shishak king of Egypt came vp against Ierusalem:
Share This Verse:
For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree.
- King James Version
For they also built for themselves high places and {sacred} pillars and Asherim on every high hill and beneath every luxuriant tree.
- New American Standard Version (1995)