OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 23

1 Kings 14:23

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For they also built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.

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1 Kings 14:20–26

20

The days which Jeroboam reigned were twenty two years; then he slept with his fathers, and Nadab his son reigned in his place.

21

Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonitess.

22

Judah did that which was evil in the LORD’s sight, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they committed, above all that their fathers had done.

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For they also built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.

24

There were also sodomites in the land. They did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD drove out before the children of Israel.

25

In the fifth year of King Rehoboam, Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem;

26

and he took away the treasures of the LORD’s house and the treasures of the king’s house. He even took away all of it, including all the gold shields which Solomon had made.

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