3 Kings 14:23
For they also built them altars, and statues, and groves upon every high hill and under every green tree:
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Ædificaverunt enim et ipsi sibi aras, et statuas, et lucos super omnem collem excelsum, et subter omnem arborem frondosam :
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ᾠκοδόμησαν ἑαυτοῖς ὑψηλὰ καὶ στήλας καὶ ἄλση ἐπὶ πάντα βουνὸν ὑψηλὸν καὶ ὑποκάτω παντὸς ξύλου συσκίου.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיִּבְנ֨וּ גַם הֵ֧מָּה לָהֶ֛ם בָּמ֥וֹת וּמַצֵּב֖וֹת וַאֲשֵׁרִ֑ים עַ֚ל כָּל גִּבְעָ֣ה גְבֹהָ֔ה וְתַ֖חַת כָּל עֵ֥ץ רַעֲנָֽן
Haydock's commentary
High hill. Such places of devotion had been tolerated, before the temple was built: but now they were deemed profane. (Calmet)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.