1 Kings 14:23KJV

Protestant Bible · KJV · Verse 23 of 31

"For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree."
1 Kings 14:23

In context

21And Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam 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 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.

24And there were also sodomites in the land: they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.

25And it came to pass in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem:

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