New English Translation
2 Kings 17:10
10They set up sacred pillars and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.
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
8they observed the practices of the nations whom the Lord had driven out from before Israel, and followed the example of the kings of Israel. 9The Israelites said things about the Lord their God that were not right. They built high places in all their cities, from the watchtower to the fortress. They set up sacred pillars and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree. 11They burned incense on all the high places just like the nations whom the Lord had driven away from before them. Their evil practices made the Lord angry. 12They worshiped the disgusting idols in blatant disregard of the Lord’s command.
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וַיַּצִּ֧בוּ לָהֶ֛ם מַצֵּב֖וֹת וַאֲשֵׁרִ֑ים עַ֚ל כָּל־גִּבְעָ֣ה גְבֹהָ֔ה וְתַ֖חַת כָּל־עֵ֥ץ רַעֲנָֽן׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for 2 Kings 17:10
- 2 Kings 16:4He offered sacrifices and burned incense on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.
- Exodus 34:13Rather you must destroy their altars, smash their images, and cut down their Asherah poles.
- Leviticus 26:1“‘You must not make for yourselves idols, so you must not set up for yourselves a carved image or a pillar, and you must not place a sculpted stone in your land to bow down before it, for I am the Lord your God.
- 1 Kings 14:23They even built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.
- Isaiah 57:5you who practice ritual sex under the oaks and every green tree, who slaughter children near the streams under the rocky overhangs.
- Deuteronomy 16:21You must not plant any kind of tree as a sacred Asherah pole near the altar of the Lord your God which you build for yourself.
- Micah 5:14I will uproot your images of Asherah from your midst, and destroy your idols.
- Deuteronomy 12:2You must by all means destroy all the places where the nations you are about to dispossess worship their gods – on the high mountains and hills and under every leafy 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
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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
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