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 · 2000and they set them up pillars and Asherim upon every high hill, and under every green tree;
KJV
King James Version · 1611And they set them up images and groves in every high hill, and under every green tree:
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901and they set them up pillars and Asherim upon every high hill, and under every green tree;
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949They put up pillars of stone and wood on every high hill and under every green tree:
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862and set up for them standing-pillars and shrines on every high height, and under every green tree,
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752And they made them statues and groves on every high hill, and under every shady tree:
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890And 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: