They also built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree;
2 Kings 17:10 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised They set up for themselves sacred pillars and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And they set them up images and groves in every high hill, and under every green tree: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition 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) and they set them up pillars and Asherim upon every high hill, and under every green tree; Common English Bible They set up sacred pillars and sacred poles on every high hill and beneath every green tree. Catholic Public Domain Version 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 And they made them statues and groves on every high hill, and under every shady tree. |
They also built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree;
He sacrificed and burned incense on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.
They burned incense there on all the high places just like the nations that the Lord had driven out before them had done. They did evil things, angering the Lord.
Be careful not to make a treaty with the inhabitants of the land that you are going to enter; otherwise, they will become a snare among you.
Instead, you must tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, and chop down their Asherah poles.
Their land is full of worthless idols; they worship the work of their hands, what their fingers have made.
who burn with lust among the oaks, under every green tree, who slaughter children in the wadis below the clefts of the rocks?
In the days of King Josiah the Lord asked me, ‘Have you seen what unfaithful Israel has done? She has ascended every high hill and gone under every green tree to prostitute herself there.
When I brought them into the land that I swore to give them and they saw any high hill or leafy tree, they offered their sacrifices and presented their offensive offerings there. They also sent up their pleasing aromas and poured out their drink offerings there.
‘Do not make worthless idols for yourselves, set up a carved image or sacred pillar for yourselves, or place a sculpted stone in your land to bow down to it, for I am the Lord your God.
I will pull up the Asherah poles from among you and demolish your cities.
‘Do not set up an Asherah of any kind of wood next to the altar you will build for the Lord your God,