2 Kings 17:10

Geneva Bible

And had made them images and groues vpon euery hie hill, and vnder euery greene tree,

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
They set up for themselves sacred pillars and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.

Hebrew Names Version
and they set them up pillars and Asherim on every high hill, and under every green tree;

King James Version
And they set them up images and groves in every high hill, and under every green tree:

English Standard Version
They set up for themselves pillars and Asherim on every high hill and under every green tree,

New Century Version
They put up stone pillars to gods and Asherah idols on every high hill and under every green tree.

New English Translation
They set up sacred pillars and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.

Amplified Bible
They set up for themselves sacred pillars (memorial stones) and Asherim on every high hill and under every green tree.

New American Standard Bible
And they set up for themselves memorial stones and Asherim on every high hill and under every green tree,

World English Bible
and they set them up pillars and Asherim on every high hill, and under every green tree;

Legacy Standard Bible
And they set for themselves sacred pillars and Asherim on every high hill and under every green tree,

Berean Standard Bible
They set up for themselves sacred pillars and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.

Contemporary English Version
They also built stone images of foreign gods and set up sacred poles for the worship of Asherah on every hill and under every shady tree.

Complete Jewish Bible
They set up standing-stones and sacred poles for themselves on any high hill and under any green tree.

Darby Translation
And they set them up columns and Asherahs on every high hill and under every green tree;

Easy-to-Read Version
They put up memorial stones and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.

George Lamsa Translation
And they set up for themselves statues and idols on every high hill and under every green tree;

Good News Translation
On all the hills and under every shady tree they put up stone pillars and images of the goddess Asherah,

Lexham English Bible
They set up for themselves stone pillars and poles of Asherah worship on every high hill and under every green tree.

Literal Translation
and set up for themselves pillars and Asherahs on every high hill, and under every green tree;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
and set vp pilers and groues, vpon all hye hilles, and amonge all grene trees,

American Standard Version
and they set them up pillars and Asherim upon every high hill, and under every green tree;

Bible in Basic English
They put up pillars of stone and wood on every high hill and under every green tree:

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And they made the images & groues in euery hye hill, & vnder euery thicke tree.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
and they set them up pillars and Asherim upon every high hill, and under every leafy tree;

King James Version (1611)
And they set them vp images, and groues in euery high hill, and vnder euery greene tree.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
and they built for themselves high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fortified city. And they made for themselves pillars and groves on every high hill, and under every shady tree.

English Revised Version
and they set them up pillars and Asherim upon every high hill, and under every green tree:

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And thei maden to hem ymagis, and wodis, in ech hiy hil, and vndur ech tree ful of bowis;

Young's Literal Translation
and set up for them standing-pillars and shrines on every high height, and under every green tree,

Update Bible Version
and they set themselves up pillars and Asherim on every high hill, and under every green tree;

Webster's Bible Translation
And they set up for themselves images and groves on every high hill, and under every green tree:

New King James Version
They set up for themselves sacred pillars and wooden images [fn] on every high hill and under every green tree.

New Living Translation
They set up sacred pillars and Asherah poles at the top of every hill and under every green tree.

New Life Bible
They set up holy objects of the false goddess Asherim on every high hill and under every green tree.

New Revised Standard
they set up for themselves pillars and sacred poles on every high hill and under every green tree;

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And they set up for themselves pillars and Sacred Stems, upon every high hill, and under every green tree;

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they made them statues and groves on every high hill, and under every shady tree:

Revised Standard Version
they set up for themselves pillars and Ashe'rim on every high hill and under every green tree;

New American Standard Bible (1995)
They set for themselves sacred pillars and Asherim on every high hill and under every green tree,

Contextual Overview

⁷ For when the children of Israel sinned against the Lorde their God, which had brought them out of the land of Egypt, fro vnder ye hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, & feared other gods, ⁸ And walked according to the facions of the Heathen, whom the Lord had cast out before the children of Israel, and after the maners of the Kings of Israel, which they vsed, ⁹ And the children of Israel had done secretly things that were not vpright before the Lorde their God, & throughout all their cities had built hie places, both from the tower of the watch, to the defensed citie, ¹⁰ And had made them images and groues vpon euery hie hill, and vnder euery greene tree, ¹¹ And there burnt incense in all the hie places, as did the heathen, whom the Lord had taken away before them, and wrought wicked things to anger the Lord, ¹² And serued idoles: whereof the Lorde had sayd vnto them, Ye shal do no such thing, ¹³ Notwithstanding the Lord testified to Israel, and to Iudah by all the Prophets, & by all the Seers, saying, Turne from your euill wayes, and keepe my commandements & my statutes, according to all the Lawe, which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my seruants the Prophets. ¹⁴ Neuerthelesse they would not obey, but hardened their neckes, like to the neckes of their fathers, that did not beleeue in the Lorde their God. ¹⁵ And they refused his statutes and his couenant, that he made with their fathers, & his testimonies (wherewith he witnessed vnto them) and they followed vanitie, and became vaine, and followed the heathen that were round about them: concerning whome the Lord had charged them, that they should not do like them. ¹⁶ Finally they left all the commaundements of the Lorde their God, and made them molten images, euen two calues, and made a groue, and worshipped all the hoste of heauen, and serued Baal.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

they set: 2 Kings 16:4, Exodus 34:13, Leviticus 26:1, 1 Kings 14:23, Isaiah 57:5

images: Heb. statues

groves: Deuteronomy 16:21, Micah 5:14

in every: 2 Kings 16:4, 1 Kings 14:23, Deuteronomy 12:2, Deuteronomy 12:3

Reciprocal: Leviticus 17:5 - in the open 2 Kings 17:16 - a grove

Cross-References

Genesis 17:3
Then Abram fell on his face, and God talked with him, saying,

Genesis 17:6
Also I will make thee exceeding fruitfull, and will make nations of thee: yea, Kings shall proceede of thee.

Genesis 17:9
Againe God said vnto Abraham, Thou also shalt keepe my couenant, thou, and thy seede after thee in their generations.

Genesis 17:11
That is, ye shall circumcise the foreskin of your flesh, and it shalbe a signe of the couenant betweene me and you.

Genesis 17:12
And euery man childe of eight dayes olde among you, shalbe circumcised in your generations, aswell he that is borne in thine house, as he that is bought with money of any stranger, which is not of thy seede.

Genesis 17:18
And Abraham saide vnto God, Oh, that Ishmael might liue in thy sight.

Genesis 17:19
Then God saide, Sarah thy wife shall beare thee a sonne in deede, and thou shalt call his name Izhak: and I will establish my couenant with him for an euerlasting couenant, and with his seede after him.

Genesis 17:25
And Ishmael his sonne was thirteene yeere olde, when the foreskinne of his flesh was circumcised.

Genesis 17:26
The selfe same day was Abraham circumcised, and Ishmael his sonne:

Genesis 34:15
But in this will we consent vnto you, if ye will be as we are, that euery man childe among you be circumcised:

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And they set them up images and groves in every high hill, and under every green tree. That is, statues and idols; for groves of trees could not be set under green trees; but they placed idols of stone, and of wood, as the latter were, in such places as Heathens were wont to do; see Jeremiah 3:6

Jeremiah 3:6- :, so the Indians to this day have idols dispersed here and there in the fields, placed in little groves, or at the foot of some hill that casts a shadow h.

h Agreement of Customs between the East Indians and Jews, art. 5. p. 34.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Kings 17:10. Images and groves — Images of different idols, and places for the abominable rites of Ashtaroth or Venus.