2 Kings 17:10 “They set up for themselves sacred pillars and Asherah poles on every h…”

2 Kings 17:10

They set up for themselves sacred pillars and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

And they set them up images and groves in every high hill, and under every green tree:

World English Bible

and they set up for themselves pillars and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree;

American Standard Version

and they set them up pillars and Asherim upon every high hill, and under every green tree;

Geneva Bible 1599

And had made them images and groues vpon euery hie hill, and vnder euery greene tree,

Darby Translation

And they set them up columns and Asherahs on every high hill and under every green tree;

Young's Literal Translation

and set up for them standing-pillars and shrines on every high height, and under every green tree,

Bible in Basic English

They put up pillars of stone and wood on every high hill and under every green tree:

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Cross references

“they set”

1 Kings 14:23 2 Kings 16:4 Exodus 34:13 Isaiah 57:5 Leviticus 26:1

1 Kings 14:23 · BSB

They also built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.

2 Kings 16:4 · BSB

And he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.

Exodus 34:13 · BSB

Rather, you must tear down their altars, smash their sacred stones, and chop down their Asherah poles.

Isaiah 57:5 · BSB

who burn with lust among the oaks, under every luxuriant tree, who slaughter your children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks?

Leviticus 26:1 · BSB

“You must not make idols for yourselves or set up a carved image or sacred pillar; you must not place a sculpted stone in your land to bow down to it. For I am the LORD your God.

“groves”

Micah 5:14 Deuteronomy 16:21

Micah 5:14 · BSB

I will root out the Asherah poles from your midst and demolish your cities.

Deuteronomy 16:21 · BSB

Do not set up any wooden Asherah pole next to the altar you will build for the LORD your God,

“in every”

Deuteronomy 12:2 Deuteronomy 12:3

Deuteronomy 12:2 · BSB

Destroy completely all the places where the nations you are dispossessing have served their gods—atop the high mountains, on the hills, and under every green tree.

Deuteronomy 12:3 · BSB

Tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, burn up their Asherah poles, cut down the idols of their gods, and wipe out their names from every place.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

9The Israelites secretly did things against the LORD their God that were not right. From watchtower to fortified city, they built high places in all their cities.

11They burned incense on all the high places like the nations that the LORD had driven out before them. They did wicked things, provoking the LORD to anger.

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