2 Kings 17:10
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“They set up for themselves sacred pillars and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.”
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“They set up for themselves sacred pillars and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“And they set them up images and groves in every high hill, and under every green tree:”
King James Version · Public Domain“and they set them up pillars and Asherim upon every high hill, and under every green tree;”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“and set up for them standing-pillars and shrines on every high height, and under every green tree,”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo 2 Kings 17:10 — 12 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Exodus 34:13Rather, you must tear down their altars, smash their sacred stones, and chop down their Asherah poles.
- 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 12:2Destroy completely all the places where the nations you are dispossessing have served their gods—atop the high mountains, on the hills, and under every green tree.
- Deuteronomy 16:21Do not set up any wooden Asherah pole next to the altar you will build for the LORD your God,
- Deuteronomy 16:22and do not set up for yourselves a sacred pillar, which the LORD your God hates.
- 1 Kings 14:23They also built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.
- 2 Kings 16:4And he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places, on the hills, 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.
- Isaiah 57:5who burn with lust among the oaks, under every luxuriant tree, who slaughter your children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks?
- 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.
- Ezekiel 20:28When I brought them into the land that I swore to give them and they saw any high hill or leafy tree, there they offered their sacrifices, presented offerings that provoked Me, sent up their fragrant incense, and poured out their drink offerings.
- Micah 5:14I will root out the Asherah poles from your midst and demolish your cities.
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