2 Kings 17:10
They put up pillars of stone and wood on every high hill and under every green tree:
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
And they set them up images and groves in every high hill, and under every green tree:
In Context
Cross References
Leviticus 26:1Do not make images of false gods, or put up an image cut in stone or a pillar or any pictured stone in your land, to give worship to it; for I am the Lord your God.
Deuteronomy 16:21Let no holy tree of any sort be planted by the altar of the Lord your God which you will make.
1 Kings 14:23For they made high places and upright stones and wood pillars on every high hill and under every green tree;
Isaiah 2:8Their land is full of images; they give worship to the work of their hands, even to that which their fingers have made.
Jeremiah 3:6And the Lord said to me in the days of Josiah the king, Have you seen what Israel, turning away from me, has done? She has gone up on every high mountain and under every branching tree, acting like a loose woman there.
Micah 5:14\5:15\And my punishment will be effected on the nations with such burning wrath as they have not had word of.
Matthew Henry on 2 Kings 17:8-24
The Wickedness of Israel. ( b. c. 730.) 7 For so it was, that the children of Israel had sinned against the Lord their God, which had brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods, 8 And walked in the statutes of the heathen, whom the Lord cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they had made. 9 And the children of Israel did secretly those things that were not right against the Lord their God, and they built… Read the whole commentary →