23For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree.
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Ye shall utterly destroy all the places, wherein the nations which ye shall possess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree:
Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks?
That thou hast also built unto thee an eminent place, and hast made thee an high place in every street. …
And the children of Israel did secretly those things that were not right against the LORD their God, and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city. …
Whilst their children remember their altars and their groves by the green trees upon the high hills.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 21-31)Judah’s story and Israel’s are intermixed in this book. Jeroboam out-lived Rehoboam, four or five years, yet his history is despatched first, that the account of Rehoboam’s reign may be laid together; and a sad account it is. I. Here is no good said of the king. All the account we have of him here is, 1. That he was forty-one years old when he began to reign, by which reckoning he was born in the…
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