2 Kings 17:10 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁰ they set up for themselves pillars and sacred poles on every high hill and under every green tree;

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁰ And they set them up images and groves in every high hill, and under every green tree:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁰ They set up for themselves pillars and Asherim [symbols of the goddess Asherah] on every high hill and under every green tree.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁰ and they set them up pillars and Asherim upon every high hill, and under every green tree;

Common English Bible

¹⁰ They set up sacred pillars and sacred poles on every high hill and beneath every green tree.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁰ And they made for themselves statues and sacred groves, on every high hill and under every leafy tree.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁰ And they made them statues and groves on every high hill, and under every shady tree.

2 Kings 17:10 Cross References

1 Kings 14:23

For they also built for themselves high places, pillars, and sacred poles on every high hill and under every green tree;

2 Kings 16:4

He sacrificed and made offerings on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.

2 Kings 17:11

there they made offerings on all the high places, as the nations did whom the Lord had carried away before them. They did wicked things, provoking the Lord to anger;

Exodus 34:12

Take care not to make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land to which you are going, or it will become a snare among you.

Exodus 34:13

Rather, you shall tear down their altars, break their pillars, and cut down their sacred poles,

Isaiah 2:8

Their land is filled with idols; they bow down to the work of their hands, to what their own fingers have made.

Isaiah 57:5

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

Jeremiah 3:6

The Lord said to me in the days of King Josiah: Have you seen what she did, that faithless one, Israel, how she went up on every high hill and under every green tree and prostituted herself there?

Ezekiel 20:28

For when I had brought them into the land that I swore to give them, then wherever they saw any high hill or any leafy tree, there they offered their sacrifices and presented the provocation of their offering; there they sent up their pleasing odors, and there they poured out their drink offerings.

Leviticus 26:1

“You shall make for yourselves no idols and erect no carved images or pillars, and you shall not place figured stones in your land, to worship at them, for I am the Lord your God.

Micah 5:14

and I will uproot your sacred poles from among you and destroy your towns.

Deuteronomy 16:21

“You shall not plant any tree as a sacred pole beside the altar that you make for the Lord your God,

Deuteronomy 16:22

nor shall you set up a stone pillar—things that the Lord your God hates.