2 Kings 17:10

And had set themselves up statues and groves on every high hill, and under every green tree;

Leeser Tanakh

In The King James Version

And they set them up images and groves in every high hill, and under every green tree:

In Context

9And [because] the children of Israel had secretly done things that are not right against the Lord their God, and had built themselves high-places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen up to fortified cities;

11And had burnt there incense on all the high-places, like the nations that the Lord had led away exiles before them; and wrought wicked things to provoke the Lord to anger;

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Cross References

Leviticus 26:1Ye shall not make yourselves any idols, and a graven image, or a standing image shall ye not rear up unto you, and any carved stone shall you not place in your land, to bow down upon it; for I am the Eternal your God.

Deuteronomy 16:21Thou shalt not plant unto thyself a grove, any tree, near the altar of the Lord thy God, which thou shalt make unto thyself.

1 Kings 14:23And they also built themselves high-places, and standing images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree.

Isaiah 2:8And full became their land of idols; to the work of their own hands they bow themselves, to what their own fingers have made.

Jeremiah 3:6And the Lord said unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen what backsliding Israel hath done? she is gone upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and hath played the harlot there.

Micah 5:14(5:13) And I will pluck up thy groves out of the midst of thee; and I will destroy thy enemies.

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 →

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