23 For they, too, built for themselves (A)high places, (B)memorial stones, and [a](C)Asherim on every high hill and (D)under every luxuriant tree.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 14:23 I.e., wooden symbols of a female deity (Asherah)

Then Solomon built a high place for (A)Chemosh, the abhorrent idol of Moab, on the mountain that is [a]east of Jerusalem, and for (B)Molech, the abhorrent idol of the sons of Ammon. He also did the same for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods.

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  1. 1 Kings 11:7 Lit before

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