2 Kings 17:10

What does 2 Kings 17:10 mean?

A plain-English look at 2 Kings 17:10 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

and they set them up pillars and Asherim upon every high hill, and under every green tree;

KJV

King James Version · 1611

And they set them up images and groves in every high hill, and under every green tree:

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

and they set them up pillars and Asherim upon every high hill, and under every green tree;

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

They put up pillars of stone and wood on every high hill and under every green tree:

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

and set up for them standing-pillars and shrines on every high height, and under every green tree,

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

And they made them statues and groves on every high hill, and under every shady tree:

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

And they set them up columns and Asherahs on every high hill and under every green tree;

Context

v.9And the children of Israel did secretly things that were not right against Jehovah their God: and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fortified city;

v.10This passage

v.11and there they burnt incense in all the high places, as did the nations whom Jehovah carried away before them; and they wrought wicked things to provoke Jehovah to anger;

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Deuteronomy 16:21

    Thou shalt not plant thee an Asherah of any kind of tree beside the altar of Jehovah thy God, which thou shalt make thee.

  • 2 Kings 16:4

    And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.

  • Leviticus 26:1

    Ye shall make you no idols, neither shall ye rear you up a graven image, or a pillar, neither shall ye place any figured stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I am Jehovah your God.

  • Micah 5:14

    and I will pluck up thine Asherim out of the midst of thee; and I will destroy thy cities.

  • Isaiah 57:5

    ye that inflame yourselves among the oaks, under every green tree; that slay the children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks?

  • Deuteronomy 12:2

    Ye shall surely destroy all the places wherein the nations that ye shall dispossess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree:

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