2 Kings 17:10
And they made for themselves statues and sacred groves, on every high hill and under every leafy tree.
Catholic Public Domain Version
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 26:1I am the Lord your God. You shall not make for yourselves an idol or a graven image. Neither shall you erect a monument, or set up a conspicuous stone in your land, in order that you may adore it. For I am the Lord your God.
Deuteronomy 16:21You shall not plant a sacred grove, nor shall you plant any tree near the altar of the Lord your God;
1 Kings 14:23For they, too, built for themselves altars, and statues, and sacred groves, upon every high hill and under every leafy tree.
Isaiah 2:8And their land has been filled with horses. And their four-horse chariots are innumerable. And their land has been filled with idols. They have adored the work of their hands, which their own fingers have made.
Jeremiah 3:6And, in the days of king Josiah, the Lord said to me: “Have you not seen what the apostate Israel has done? She has brought herself up to every lofty mountain, and she has lain down under every leafy tree, and she has committed fornication there.
Micah 5:14And I will exact vengeance, in fury and in indignation, among all the nations which have not listened.
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 →