2 Kings 17:9-11

9And the children of Israel did secretly against Jehovah their 1God things that were not right; and they built them high places in all their cities, from the watchmen's tower to the fortified city.

10And 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;