2 Kings 17:10
And they set up for themselves images and groves on every high hill, and under every green tree:
Webster 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 26:1Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye set up any image of stone in your land, to bow down to it: for I am the LORD your God.
Deuteronomy 16:21Thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees near to the altar of the LORD thy God, which thou shalt make for thee.
1 Kings 14:23For they also built for themselves 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 to me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen that which backsliding Israel hath done? she hath gone up upon every high mountain, and under every green tree, and there hath played the harlot.
Micah 5:14And I will pluck up thy groves out of the midst of thee: so will I 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 →