2 Kings 17:10
And they set them up images and groves in every high hill, and under every green tree:
2 Kings 17:10 in other translations
| BSB | They set up for themselves sacred pillars and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree. |
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| WEB | and they set up for themselves pillars and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree; |
| ASV | and they set them up pillars and Asherim upon every high hill, and under every green tree; |
| YLT | and set up for them standing-pillars and shrines on every high height, and under every green tree, |
| DARBY | And they set them up columns and Asherahs on every high hill and under every green tree; |
| BBE | They put up pillars of stone and wood on every high hill and under every green tree: |
| Webster | And they set up for themselves images and groves on every high hill, and under every green tree: |
What does 2 Kings 17:10 mean?
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on 2 Kings 17:7-23
Though the destruction of the kingdom of the ten tribes was but briefly related, it is in these verses largely commented upon, and the reasons of it given. It was destruction from the Almighty: the Assyrian was but the rod of his anger, Is 10:5. Those that bring sin into a country or family, bring a plague into it, and will have to answer for all the mischief that follows. And vast as the outward wickedness of the…
2 Kings 17:10 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for 2 Kings 17:10
- 1 Kings 14:23
For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree.
- Micah 5:14
And I will pluck up thy groves out of the midst of thee: so will I destroy thy cities.
- Exodus 34:13
But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves:
- 2 Kings 16:4
And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.
- Deuteronomy 12:2-3
Ye shall utterly destroy all the places, wherein the nations which ye shall possess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree: And ye shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their groves with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods, and destroy the names of them out of that place.
- Deuteronomy 16:21
Thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees near unto the altar of the Lord thy God, which thou shalt make thee.
- Isaiah 57:5
Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks?
- Leviticus 26:1
Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye set up any image of stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I am the Lord your God.
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Context
- 2 Kings 17:9
And the children of Israel did secretly those things that were not right against the Lord their God, and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.
- 2 Kings 17:10
And they set them up images and groves in every high hill, and under every green tree:
- 2 Kings 17:11
And there they burnt incense in all the high places, as did the heathen whom the Lord carried away before them; and wrought wicked things to provoke the Lord to anger:
2 Kings 17:10 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Y se levantasen estatuas y bosques en todo collado alto, y debajo de todo árbol umbroso, |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | et ils se dressèrent des statues et des ashères sur toute haute colline et sous tout arbre vert, |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | und sie errichteten sich Bildsäulen und Ascherim auf jedem hohen Hügel und unter jedem grünen Baume, |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Feceruntque sibi statuas et lucos in omni colle sublimi, et subter omne lignum nemorosum: |