2 Kings 17:10
and they set them up pillars and Asherim upon every high hill, and under every green tree;
American Standard 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 26:1Ye shall make you no idols, neither shall ye rear you up a graven image, or a pillar, neither shall ye place any figured stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I am Jehovah your God.
Deuteronomy 16:21Thou shalt not plant thee an Asherah of any kind of tree beside the altar of Jehovah thy God, which thou shalt make thee.
1 Kings 14:23For they also built them high places, and pillars, and Asherim, on every high hill, and under every green tree;
Isaiah 2:8Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made.
Jeremiah 3:6Moreover Jehovah said unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen that which backsliding Israel hath done? she is gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there hath played the harlot.
Micah 5:14and I will pluck up thine Asherim out of the midst of thee; and I will destroy thy cities.
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 →