2 Kings 17:10
And they made them statues and groves on every high hill, and under every shady tree:
Douay-Rheims 1899
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 to yourselves any idol or graven thing, neither shall you erect pillars, nor set up a remarkable stone in your land, to adore it: for I am the Lord your God.
Deuteronomy 16:21Thou shalt plant no grove, nor any tree near the altar of the Lord thy God:
1 Kings 14:23For they also built them altars, and statues, and groves upon every high hill and under every green tree:
Isaiah 2:8And their land is filled with horses: and their chariots are innumerable. Their land also is full of idols: they have adored the work of their own hands, which their own fingers have made.
Jeremiah 3:6And the Lord said to me in the days of king Josias: Hast thou seen what rebellious Israel hast done? she hath gone out of herself upon every high mountain, and under every green tree, and hath played the harlot there.
Micah 5:14And I will execute vengeance in wrath and in indignation among all the nations that have not given ear.
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 →