Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 Kings 14:23

23 For they also built them high places , and images, and groves on every high hill, and under every green tree .

They followed the example of the Israelites, although they were better instructed, and had the Temple in their Kingdom, and liberty of access to it, which was denied to the Israelites; and the priviledge of Worshipping God in his own way, and the Counsels, and Sermons, and Examples of the Priests and Levites, to teach and stablish them, and the dreadful example of Israel's horrid Apostacy, to caution and terrify them.

Which was unlawful, and, now especially when the Temple was Built, and ready to receive them; unnecessary, and therefore expressed a greater contempt of God and his express Command to the contrary.

Not only after the manner of the Heathens and Israelites, but against a direct and particular prohibition.

The People were universally corrupted: which is a prodigious, all things considered, and is a clear evidence of the greatness and depth of the Original corruption of Mans nature, which without Gods Grace is ready to break forth into all sorts of wickedness.

Marginal references: Or, standing images, or, statues.