For they also built for themselves high places and pillars and Asherim on every high hill and under every green tree,
2 Kings 17:10 - English Standard Version 2016 They set up for themselves pillars and Asherim 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. |
For they also built for themselves high places and pillars and Asherim on every high hill and under every green tree,
And he sacrificed and made offerings on the high places and on the hills and under every green tree.
and there they made offerings on all the high places, as the nations did whom the Lord carried away before them. And they did wicked things, provoking the Lord to anger,
Take care, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land to which you go, lest it become a snare in your midst.
You shall tear down their altars and break their pillars and cut down their Asherim
Their land is filled with idols; they bow down to the work of their hands, to what their own fingers have made.
you who burn with lust among the oaks, under every green tree, who slaughter your children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks?
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 there played the whore?
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 there they presented the provocation of their offering; there they sent up their pleasing aromas, and there they poured out their drink offerings.
“You shall not make idols for yourselves or erect an image or pillar, and you shall not set up a figured stone in your land to bow down to it, for I am the Lord your God.
and I will root out your Asherah images from among you and destroy your cities.
“You shall not plant any tree as an Asherah beside the altar of the Lord your God that you shall make.