"And they set them up images and groves in every high hill, and under every green tree: {images: Heb. statues}" — 2 Kings 17:10

2 Kings 17:10 · KJV

“And they set them up images and groves in every high hill, and under every green tree: {images: Heb. statues}”

— 2 Kings 17:10

And the children of Israel did secretly {those} things that {were} not right against the LORD their God, and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.

Verse 11

And there they burnt incense in all the high places, as {did} the heathen whom the LORD carried away before them; and wrought wicked things to provoke the LORD to anger:

2 Kings 17 — Context

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.

And they set them up images and groves in every high hill, and under every green tree: {images: Heb. statues}

And there they burnt incense in all the high places, as {did} the heathen whom the LORD carried away before them; and wrought wicked things to provoke the LORD to anger:

For they served idols, whereof the LORD had said unto them, Ye shall not do this thing.

Cross References

1 Kings 14:23

For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree. {images: or, standing images, or, statues}

Micah 5:14

And I will pluck up thy groves out of the midst of thee: so will I destroy thy cities. {cities: or, enemies}

Exodus 34:13

But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves: {images: Heb. statues}

2 Kings 16:4

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

Deuteronomy 12:2-3

Ye shall utterly destroy all the places, wherein the nations which ye shall possess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree: {possess: or, inherit}

Isaiah 57:5

Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks? {with...: or, among the oaks}

Deuteronomy 16:21

Thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees near unto the altar of the LORD thy God, which thou shalt make thee.

Leviticus 26:1

Ye 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 unto it: for I {am} the LORD your God. {standing...: or, pillar} {image of...: or, figured stone: Heb. a stone of picture}

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