1 Kings 14:23 Meaning and Explanation
“For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree.”
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What Does 1 Kings 14:23 Mean?
The verse details Judah's sin: they built high places, set up sacred pillars and idol groves on every high hill and under every leafy tree, scattering pagan worship across the whole land.
The phrase every high hill and every green tree pictures a faith spread thin across countless rival altars, when God had appointed one place for His name. Worship that runs after every passing shrine is worship divided, and a divided devotion is no devotion at all. The human heart will pour itself out somewhere; the question is whether it pours itself toward the living God or wastes itself on what cannot save. God calls His people back from the many altars to the one true Lord.
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What does 1 Kings 14:23 mean?
Judah fills the land with pagan shrines, sacred pillars, and idol groves on every hill and under every tree.