2 Kings 17:10
They set up for themselves sacred pillars and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.
Majority Standard Bible
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 26:1“You must not make idols for yourselves or set up a carved image or sacred pillar; you must not place a sculpted stone in your land to bow down to it. For I am the LORD your God.
Deuteronomy 16:21Do not set up any wooden Asherah pole next to the altar you will build for the LORD your God,
1 Kings 14:23They also built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.
Isaiah 2:8Their land is full of idols; they bow down to the work of their hands, to what their fingers have made.
Jeremiah 3:6Now in the days of King Josiah, the LORD said to me, “Have you seen what faithless Israel has done? She has gone up on every high hill and under every green tree to prostitute herself there.
Micah 5:14I will root out the Asherah poles from your midst and demolish your 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 →