Lièwángjìshang 14:23

23 Yīnwei tāmen zaì gè gāo gāng shàng , gè qīng cuì shù xià zhú tán , lì zhù xiàng hé mùǒu .

Lièwángjìshang 14:23 Meaning and Commentary

1 Kings 14:23

For they also built them high places
Which, though allowed of, or at least connived at, before the temple was built, and when the tabernacle was unfixed, yet afterwards unlawful; and the tribe of Judah could have no excuse for them, who had the temple in their tribe:

and images;
contrary to the express command of God, ( Exodus 20:4 ) ,

and groves on every high hill, and under every green tree;
that is, set up idols, and temples for idols, amidst groves of trees, and under all green trees; as was the custom of the Heathens, who sacrificed on the heights of hills and tops of mountains, as was particularly the custom of the Persians, as both Herodotus ^F13 and Xenophon ^F14 relate; and with the Getae, a people in Thrace, was a mountain they reckoned sacred {o}.

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FOOTNOTES:

F13 Clio, sive, l. 1. c. 131.
F14 Cyropaedia, l. 8. c. 45.
F15 Strabo Geograph. l. 7. p. 206.

Lièwángjìshang 14:23 In-Context

21 Suǒluómén de érzi Luóbōān zuò Yóudà wáng . tā dēng jī de shíhou nián sì shí yī suì , zaì Yēlùsǎlĕng , jiù shì Yēhéhuá cóng Yǐsèliè zhòng zhīpaì zhōng suǒ xuǎnzé lì tā míng de chéng , zuò wáng shí qī nián . Luóbōān de mǔqin míng jiào Námǎ , shì Yàmén rén .

22 Yóudà rén xíng Yēhéhuá yǎn zhōng kàn wéi è de shì , fàn zuì chù dòng tāde fènhèn , bǐ tāmen lièzǔ gèng shén .

23 Yīnwei tāmen zaì gè gāo gāng shàng , gè qīng cuì shù xià zhú tán , lì zhù xiàng hé mùǒu .

24 Guó zhōng yĕ yǒu luán tóng . Yóudà rén xiàofǎ Yēhéhuá zaì Yǐsèliè rén miànqián suǒ gǎn chū de waìbāngrén , xíng yīqiè kĕ zēngwù de shì .

25 Luóbōān wáng dì wǔ nián , Āijí wáng Shìsǎ shàng lái gōng qǔ Yēlùsǎlĕng ,