For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree.
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Gill's Exposition
And there were also Sodomites in the land, Such as were addicted to unnatural lusts between men and men, which the men of Sodom were guilty of, from whence they had their name: Jarchi interprets the…
Barnes' Notes
The words “they also” are emphatic. Not only did the Israelites make themselves high places 1Ki 12:31; 1Ki 13:32, but the people of Judah also. The “high places,” which are said to have been “built,”…
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;…
Cambridge Bible
high places We read constantly of -houses" of the high places, and it is to these erections on some lofty hills that the -building" here spoken of applies. See above, 1Ki 12:31.
images The R.V.…
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