They also built for themselves high places, sacred pillars and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every leafy tree;
2 Kings 17:10 - Tree of Life Version and they set up pillars and Asherah poles for themselves on every high hill and under every leafy 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 leafy tree;
He offered sacrifices and burned incense on the high places, on the hills, and under every leafy tree.
There they burned incense on all the high places, like the nations whom Adonai had driven out before them. So they did wicked things to provoke Adonai.
Watch yourself, and make no covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going, or they will become a snare among you.
Instead you must break down their altars, smash their pillars and cut down their Asherah poles.
Their land also is full of idols. They worship the work of their hands, what their own fingers have made.
You who burn with lust among the oaks and under every green tree, who sacrifice your children in the wadis and under the clefts of the rocks?
Then Adonai said to me in the days of King Josiah: “Have you seen what backsliding Israel did? She went up on every high mountain and under every green tree, and there she committed adultery.
When I brought them into the land, which I lifted up My hand to give to them, they saw every high hill and every leafy tree. There they slaughtered their sacrifices and presented their offensive offering. There they made their soothing aroma and poured out their drink offerings.
“You are not to make idols for yourselves, nor raise up an engraved image or a standing-stone, or place any carved stone in your land to bow down to it. For I am Adonai your God.
So I will execute vengeance in anger and wrath on the nations that have not listened.
You are not to plant for yourself an Asherah pole of any kind of wood beside the altar of Adonai your God that you make for yourself.
Nor are you to set up a pillar for yourself—Adonai your God hates this.