and they set up for themselves pillars and Asherah poles on every high hill, and under every green tree;
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and they set up for themselves pillars and Asherah poles on every high hill, and under every green tree;
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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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and they set them up pillars and Asherim upon every high hill, and under every leafy tree;
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Passages linked to 2 Kings 17:10 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- 1 Kings 14:23 For they also built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.
- Micah 5:14 I will uproot your Asherah poles out from among you; and I will destroy your cities.
- Exodus 34:13 but you shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and you shall cut down their Asherah poles;
- 2 Kings 16:4 He sacrificed and burned incense in the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.
- Deuteronomy 12:2-3 You shall surely destroy all the places in which the nations that you shall dispossess served their gods: on the high mountains, and on the hills, and under every green tree. You shall break down their altars, dash their pillars in pieces, and burn their Asherah poles with fire. You shall cut down the engraved images of their gods. You shall destroy their name out of that place.
- Deuteronomy 16:21 You shall not plant for yourselves an Asherah of any kind of tree beside Yahweh your God’s altar, which you shall make for yourselves.
- Isaiah 57:5 you who inflame yourselves among the oaks, under every green tree; who kill the children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks?
- Leviticus 26:1 “ ‘You shall make for yourselves no idols, and you shall not raise up a carved image or a pillar, and you shall not place any figured stone in your land, to bow down to it; for I am Yahweh your God.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 2Ki 17:10 And they set them up images and…
2Ki 17:10 And they set them up images and groves in every high hill, and under every green tree:
Ver. 10. In every high hill.] Where they "poured forth their whoredoms," {Eze 16:20-26} and "this had been their custom from their youth." {Eze 23:8}
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And they set them up images and groves in…
And they set them up images and groves in every high hill, and under every green tree. That is, statues and idols; for groves of trees could not be set under green trees; but they placed idols of stone, and of wood, as the latter were, in such places as Heathens were wont to do; see Jer 3:6; see Gill on Kg1 14:23, so the Indians to this day have idols dispersed here and there in the fields, placed in little groves, or at the foot of some hill that casts a shadow (h).
(h) Agreement of Customs between the East Indians and Jews, art. 5. p. 34.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 10. Images and groves] Images of different idols,…
Verse 10. Images and groves] Images of different idols, and places for the abominable rites of Ashtaroth or Venus.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Groves. Hebrew Asherim, Astarte or Venus, to whom "the…
Groves. Hebrew Asherim, Astarte or Venus, to whom "the groves" were consecrated, chap. xxi. 7., and xxiii. 4. (Calmet)
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 10. Images… groves — See note on 1Ki_14:15; 1Ki_14:23.
10. Images… groves — See note on 1Ki_14:15; 1Ki_14:23.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 10. images and groves …] R.V. pillars and Asherim…
10. images and groves …] R.V. pillars and Asherim upon. On the ‘pillars’ see note on 2Ki_3:2, and on the Asherim, which were probably wooden images of a goddess Asherah, see on 2Ki_13:6.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (10) Images and groves.—Pillars and Asheras—i.e., sacred trunks.
(10) Images and groves.—Pillars and Asheras—i.e., sacred trunks.
The second degree of guilt: the setting up of idolatrous symbols.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain And they set them up images; rather, pillars (comp.…
And they set them up images; rather, pillars (comp. Gen_28:18, Gen_28:22; Gen_31:13, Gen_31:45, Gen_31:51, Gen_31:52; Gen_35:14, Gen_35:20; Exo_24:4; Deu_12:3; 2Sa_18:18, where the same word is so rendered) The matse voth were stone pillars, anciently connected with the worship of Baal, but in Judah perhaps used in a debased and debasing worship of Jehovah with self-invented rites, instead of those which had the express sanction of God, being commanded in the Law (see the "Speaker"s Commentary," vol. 1.p. 417). And groves (compare the comment on 1Ki_14:14 and 23, and see also that on 2Ki_13:6) in every high hill rather, on every high hill and under every green tree. Mote that the "groves" (ash,-rim) were "set up under green trees," and must therefore have been artificial structures of some kind, such as could stand beneath their boughs.
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