2 Kings 17:10
And they set them up images and groves in every high hill, and under every green tree:
Updated King James Version
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And they set them up images and groves in every high hill, and under every green tree:
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Cross References
Leviticus 26:1All of you shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall all of you set up any image of stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I am the LORD your God.
Deuteronomy 16:21You shall not plant you a grove of any trees near unto the altar of the LORD your God, which you shall make you.
1 Kings 14:23For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, 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 3:6The LORD said also unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Have you seen that which backsliding Israel has done? she is gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there has played the harlot.
Micah 5:14And I will pluck up your groves out of the midst of you: so will I destroy 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 →