2 Kings 17:10
And had made them images and groues vpon euery hie hill, and vnder euery greene tree,
Geneva Bible 1599
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 none idoles nor grauen image, neither reare you vp any pillar, neither shall ye set any image of stone in your land to bow downe to it: for I am the Lord your God.
Deuteronomy 16:21Thou shalt plant thee no groue of any trees neere vnto the altar of the Lord thy God, which thou shalt make thee.
1 Kings 14:23For they also made them hie places, and images, and groues on euery hie hill, and vnder euery greene tree.
Isaiah 2:8Their land also was full of idols: they worshipped the worke of their owne hands, which their owne fingers haue made.
Jeremiah 3:6The Lord saide also vnto me, in the daies of Iosiah the King, Hast thou seene what this rebell Israel hath done? for she hath gone vp vpon euery high mountaine, and vnder euery greene tree, and there plaied the harlot.
Micah 5:14And I wil plucke vp thy groues out of the middes of thee: so will I destroy thine 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 →