2 Kings 17:10

2 Kings 17:10 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)And they set them up images and groves in every high hill, and under every green tree:
• New International Version (NIV)They set up sacred stones and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every spreading tree.
• English Standard Version (ESV)They set up for themselves pillars and Asherim on every high hill and under every green tree,
• New King James Version (NKJV)They set up for themselves sacred pillars and wooden images on every high hill and under every green tree.

Context of 2 Kings 17:10

8and they walked in the statutes of the nations that Jehovah had dispossessed from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they had made. 9And the children of Israel did secretly against Jehovah their God things that were not right; and they built them high places in all their cities, from the watchmen's tower to the fortified city. And they set them up columns and Asherahs on every high hill and under every green tree; 11and there they burned incense on all the high places, as did the nations that Jehovah had carried away from before them, and they wrought wicked things to provoke Jehovah to anger; 12and they served idols, as to which Jehovah had said to them, Ye shall not do this thing.

2 Kings 17:10 word by word

וַיַּצִּ֧בוּ לָהֶ֛ם מַצֵּב֖וֹת וַאֲשֵׁרִ֑ים עַ֚ל כָּל־גִּבְעָ֣ה גְבֹהָ֔ה וְתַ֖חַת כָּל־עֵ֥ץ רַעֲנָֽן׃Read the interlinear

• setנָצַבnâtsab · to standH5324
• highגָּבֹהַּgâbôhha gâbôhha · highH1364
• hillגִּבְעָהgib‛âh · hillH1389
• treeעֵץ‛êts · treeH6086

Cross-references for 2 Kings 17:10

• 2 Kings 16:4And he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.
• Exodus 34:13but ye shall demolish their altars, shatter their statues, and hew down their Asherahs.
• Leviticus 26:1Ye shall make yourselves no idols, neither rear you up for yourselves carved image, or statue, nor shall ye set up a figured stone in your land, to bow down unto it; for I am Jehovah your God.
• 1 Kings 14:23And they also built for themselves high places, and columns, and Asherahs on every high hill and under every green tree;
• Isaiah 57:5inflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clefts of the rocks?
• Deuteronomy 16:21Thou shalt not plant thyself an Asherah of any wood near unto the altar of Jehovah thy God, which thou shalt make thee.
• Micah 5:14And I will pluck up thine Asherahs out of the midst of thee, and I will destroy thy cities.
• Deuteronomy 12:2Ye shall utterly destroy all the places wherein the nations which ye shall dispossess have served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree;

Commentaries on 2 Kings 17:10

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 10Images and groves - Images of different idols, and places for the abominable rites of Ashtaroth or Venus.Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 7-23Verses 7-23 Though the destruction of the kingdom of the ten tribes was but briefly related, it is in these verses largely commented upon, and the reasons of it given. It was destruction from the Almighty: the Assyrian was but the rod of his anger, Is 10:5. Those that bring sin into a country or family, bring a plague into it, and will have to answer for all the mischief that follows. And vast as the outward wickedness of the world is, the secret sins…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 8-13Israel committed many sins, including pagan rituals and practices. Whether done openly or in secret, God knew about them all. Israel's kings often started these practices by building pagan shrines, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles. They copied pagan sacrifices and idol worship (2 Kings 10:29; 15:18, 28; 1 Kings 12:28–33; 15:34; 16:30–33). People from all parts of Israelite society, both royalty and commoners, continued these sins. They ignored warnings…Read the comment

Topics related to 2 Kings 17:10

• Assyria
• Babylon
• Groves
• Judgments
• Rulers

In the dictionaries

• Asherah
• Assyria
• Captivity
• Color; Colors
• Fear
• High Place
• Hill, Hill Country
• Hill; Mount; Mountain
• Kings, Books of
• Samaria, Country of

Commentaries on 2 Kings 17

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings