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2 Kings 17:10

They put up memorial stones and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Assyria;   Babylon;   Groves;   Judgments;   Rulers;   Scofield Reference Index - Israel;   The Topic Concordance - Disobedience;   Fear;   Following;   Idolatry;   Vanity;   Worship;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Forsaking God;   Idolatry;   Sins, National;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Captivity;   Egypt;   High Places;   Shalmaneser;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Baal;   Idol, idolatry;   Israel;   Samaria, samaritans;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Amos, Theology of;   Chronicles, Theology of;   Ethics;   Persecution;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Samaritans;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Grove;   Idol;   Kings, the Books of;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Dan;   High Place;   Kings, 1 and 2;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Asherah;   Israel;   Pillar;   Samaria;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Grove;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Shalmanezer;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Captivity;   Hezekiah;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Kingdom of Israel;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Asherah;   Color;   High Place;   Hill;   Hill;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Ashtoreth;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Groves and Sacred Trees;   Pillar;   Stone and Stone-Worship;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
They set up for themselves sacred pillars and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.
Hebrew Names Version
and they set them up pillars and Asherim on every high hill, and under every green tree;
King James Version
And they set them up images and groves in every high hill, and under every green tree:
English Standard Version
They set up for themselves pillars and Asherim on every high hill and under every green tree,
New Century Version
They put up stone pillars to gods and Asherah idols on every high hill and under every green tree.
New English Translation
They set up sacred pillars and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.
Amplified Bible
They set up for themselves sacred pillars (memorial stones) and Asherim on every high hill and under every green tree.
New American Standard Bible
And they set up for themselves memorial stones and Asherim on every high hill and under every green tree,
World English Bible
and they set them up pillars and Asherim on every high hill, and under every green tree;
Geneva Bible (1587)
And had made them images and groues vpon euery hie hill, and vnder euery greene tree,
Legacy Standard Bible
And they set for themselves sacred pillars and Asherim on every high hill and under every green tree,
Berean Standard Bible
They set up for themselves sacred pillars and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.
Contemporary English Version
They also built stone images of foreign gods and set up sacred poles for the worship of Asherah on every hill and under every shady tree.
Complete Jewish Bible
They set up standing-stones and sacred poles for themselves on any high hill and under any green tree.
Darby Translation
And they set them up columns and Asherahs on every high hill and under every green tree;
George Lamsa Translation
And they set up for themselves statues and idols on every high hill and under every green tree;
Good News Translation
On all the hills and under every shady tree they put up stone pillars and images of the goddess Asherah,
Lexham English Bible
They set up for themselves stone pillars and poles of Asherah worship on every high hill and under every green tree.
Literal Translation
and set up for themselves pillars and Asherahs on every high hill, and under every green tree;
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
and set vp pilers and groues, vpon all hye hilles, and amonge all grene trees,
American Standard Version
and they set them up pillars and Asherim upon every high hill, 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:
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And they made the images & groues in euery hye hill, & vnder euery thicke tree.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
and they set them up pillars and Asherim upon every high hill, and under every leafy tree;
King James Version (1611)
And they set them vp images, and groues in euery high hill, and vnder euery greene tree.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
and they built for themselves high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fortified city. And they made for themselves pillars and groves on every high hill, and under every shady tree.
English Revised Version
and they set them up pillars and Asherim upon every high hill, and under every green tree:
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And thei maden to hem ymagis, and wodis, in ech hiy hil, and vndur ech tree ful of bowis;
Young's Literal Translation
and set up for them standing-pillars and shrines on every high height, and under every green tree,
Update Bible Version
and they set themselves up pillars and Asherim on every high hill, and under every green tree;
Webster's Bible Translation
And they set up for themselves images and groves on every high hill, and under every green tree:
New King James Version
They set up for themselves sacred pillars and wooden images [fn] on every high hill and under every green tree.
New Living Translation
They set up sacred pillars and Asherah poles at the top of every hill and under every green tree.
New Life Bible
They set up holy objects of the false goddess Asherim on every high hill and under every green tree.
New Revised Standard
they set up for themselves pillars and sacred poles on every high hill and under every green tree;
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And they set up for themselves pillars and Sacred Stems, upon every high hill, and under every green tree;
Douay-Rheims Bible
And they made them statues and groves on every high hill, and under every shady tree:
Revised Standard Version
they set up for themselves pillars and Ashe'rim on every high hill and under every green tree;
New American Standard Bible (1995)
They set for themselves sacred pillars and Asherim on every high hill and under every green tree,

Contextual Overview

7 These things happened because the Israelites had sinned against the Lord their God. And it was the Lord who brought the Israelites out of the land of Egypt! He saved them from the power of Pharaoh, the king of Egypt. But the Israelites began worshiping other gods. 8 They began doing the same things that other people did. And the Lord had forced those people to leave their land when the Israelites came. The Israelites also chose to be ruled by kings. 9 The Israelites secretly did things against the Lord their God, and those things were wrong! The Israelites built high places in all their cities—from the smallest town to the largest city. 10 They put up memorial stones and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree. 11 They burned incense there in all those places for worship. They did these things like the nations that the Lord forced out of the land before them. The Israelites did evil things that made the Lord angry. 12 They served idols, and the Lord had said to them, "You must not do this." 13 The Lord used every prophet and every seer to warn Israel and Judah. He said, "Turn away from the evil things you do. Obey my commands and laws. Follow all the law that I gave to your ancestors. I used my servants the prophets to give this law to you." 14 But the people would not listen. They were very stubborn like their ancestors. Their ancestors did not believe the Lord their God. 15 They refused to follow his laws and the agreement he made with their ancestors. They would not listen to his warnings. They worshiped idols that were worth nothing and they themselves became worth nothing. The Lord had warned them not to do the evil things that the people in the nations around them did. But they lived the same way those people lived. 16 The people stopped following the commands of the Lord their God. They made two gold statues of calves. They made Asherah poles. They worshiped all the stars of heaven and served Baal.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

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

images: Heb. statues

groves: Deuteronomy 16:21, Micah 5:14

in every: 2 Kings 16:4, 1 Kings 14:23, Deuteronomy 12:2, Deuteronomy 12:3

Reciprocal: Leviticus 17:5 - in the open 2 Kings 17:16 - a grove

Cross-References

Genesis 17:3
Then Abram bowed down before God. God said to him,
Genesis 17:6
I will give you many descendants. New nations and kings will come from you.
Genesis 17:9
Then God said to Abraham, "Now, this is your part of the agreement: You and all your descendants will obey my agreement.
Genesis 17:11
You will cut the skin to show that you follow the agreement between me and you.
Genesis 17:12
When the baby boy is eight days old, you will circumcise him. Every boy born among your people and every boy who is a slave of your people must be circumcised.
Genesis 17:18
Then Abraham said to God, "I hope Ishmael will live and serve you."
Genesis 17:19
God said, "No, I said that your wife Sarah will have a son. You will name him Isaac. I will make my agreement with him that will continue forever with all his descendants.
Genesis 17:25
And Ishmael, his son, was 13 years old when he was circumcised.
Genesis 17:26
Abraham and his son were circumcised on the same day.
Genesis 34:15
But we will allow you to marry her if you do this one thing: Every man in your town must be circumcised like us.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And they set them up images and groves in every high hill, and under every green tree. That is, statues and idols; for groves of trees could not be set under green trees; but they placed idols of stone, and of wood, as the latter were, in such places as Heathens were wont to do; see Jeremiah 3:6

Jeremiah 3:6- :, so the Indians to this day have idols dispersed here and there in the fields, placed in little groves, or at the foot of some hill that casts a shadow h.

h Agreement of Customs between the East Indians and Jews, art. 5. p. 34.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Kings 17:10. Images and groves — Images of different idols, and places for the abominable rites of Ashtaroth or Venus.


 
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