1 Kings 14:23
Good News Translation
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.

New Revised Standard Version
For they also built for themselves high places, pillars, and sacred poles on every high hill and under every green tree;

Contemporary English Version
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.

New American Bible
They, too, built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and asherahs, upon 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:

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For they also built them altars, and statues, and groves, upon every high hill, and under every green tree:

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1 Kings 3:2 But yet the people sacrificed in the high places: for there was no temple built to the name of the Lord until that day.

Deuteronomy 12:2 Destroy all the places in which the nations, that you shall possess, worshipped their gods upon high mountains, and hills, and under every shady tree:

Isaiah 57:5 Who seek your comfort in idols under every green tree, sacrificing children in the torrents, under the high rocks?

Ezekiel 16:24,25 That thou didst also build thee a common stew, and madest thee a brothel house in every street. . . .

Ezekiel 20:28,29 And I had brought them into the land, for which I lifted up my hand to give it them: they saw every high hill, and every shady tree, and there they sacrificed their victims: and there they presented the provocation of their offerings, and there they set their sweet odours, and poured forth their libations. . . .

images.

Leviticus 26:1 I am the Lord your God. You shall not make to yourselves any idol or graven thing: neither shall you erect pillars, nor set up a remarkable stone in your land, to adore it. For I am the Lord your God.

groves

Micah 5:14 And I will pluck up thy groves out of the midst of thee: and will crush thy cities.

Deuteronomy 12:2 Destroy all the places in which the nations, that you shall possess, worshipped their gods upon high mountains, and hills, and under every shady tree:

2 Kings 17:9,10 And the children of Israel offended the Lord, their God, with things that were not right: and built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city. . . .

2 Kings 21:3-7 And he turned, and built up the high places, which Ezechias, his father, had destroyed: and he set up altars to Baal, and made groves, as Achab, the king of Israel, had done: and he adored all the host of heaven, and served them. . . .

2 Chronicles 28:4 He sacrificed also, and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.

Jeremiah 17:2 When their children shall remember their altars, and their groves, and their green trees upon the high mountains,

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Isaiah 57:5 Who seek your comfort in idols under every green tree, sacrificing children in the torrents, under the high rocks?

Jeremiah 3:13 But yet acknowledge thy iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against the Lord thy God: and thou hast scattered thy ways to strangers under every green tree, and hast not heard my voice, saith the Lord.

Context
Rehoboam's Reign in Judah
22And Juda did evil in the sight of the Lord, and provoked him above all that their fathers had done, in their sins which they committed. 23For they also built them altars, and statues, and groves, upon every high hill, and under every green tree:24There were also the effeminate in the land, and they did according to all the abominations of the people, whom the Lord had destroyed before the face of the children of Israel.…
Cross References
Exodus 34:13
But destroy their altars, break their statues and cut down their groves:

Deuteronomy 12:2
Destroy all the places in which the nations, that you shall possess, worshipped their gods upon high mountains, and hills, and under every shady tree:

Deuteronomy 16:22
Neither shalt thou make nor set up to thyself a statue: which things the Lord thy God hateth.

1 Kings 14:15
And the Lord God shall strike Israel as a reed is shaken in the water: and he shall root up Israel out of this good land, which he gave to their fathers, and shall scatter them beyond the river: because they have made to themselves groves, to provoke the Lord.

1 Kings 15:12
And he took away the effeminate out of the land, and removed all the filth of the idols, which his fathers had made.

1 Kings 20:23
But the servants of the king of Syria said to him: Their gods are gods of the hills, therefore they have overcome us: but it is better that we should fight against them in the plains, and we shall overcome them.

2 Kings 10:26
And brought the statue out of Baal's temple, and burnt it,

2 Kings 17:10
And they made them statues and groves on every high hill, and under every shady tree:

2 Kings 17:16
And they forsook all the precepts of the Lord, their God: and made to themselves two molten calves, and groves, and adored all the host of heaven: and they served Baal,

2 Kings 17:19
But neither did Juda itself keep the commandments of the Lord, their God: but they walked in the errors of Israel, which they had wrought.

Isaiah 57:5
Who seek your comfort in idols under every green tree, sacrificing children in the torrents, under the high rocks?

Jeremiah 2:20
Of old time thou hast broken my yoke, thou hast burst my bands, and thou saidst: I will not serve. For on every high hill, and under every green tree thou didst prostitute thyself.

Ezekiel 6:13
And you shall know that I am the Lord, when your slain shall be amongst your idols, round about your altars, in every high hill, and on all the tops of mountains, and under every woody tree, and under every thick oak, the place where they burnt sweet smelling frankincense to all their idols.

Ezekiel 16:24
That thou didst also build thee a common stew, and madest thee a brothel house in every street.

Ezekiel 20:28
And I had brought them into the land, for which I lifted up my hand to give it them: they saw every high hill, and every shady tree, and there they sacrificed their victims: and there they presented the provocation of their offerings, and there they set their sweet odours, and poured forth their libations.

Hosea 10:1
Israel a vine full of branches, the fruit is agreeable to it: according to the multitude of his fruit, he hath multiplied altars, according to the plenty of his land he hath abounded with idols.

1 Kings 14:22
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