2 Kings 17:10

Young's Literal Translation

and set up for them standing-pillars and shrines on every high height, and under every green 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;

Geneva Bible (1587)
And had made them images and groues vpon euery hie hill, and vnder euery greene 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;

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 And it cometh to pass, because the sons of Israel have sinned against Jehovah their God -- who bringeth them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt -- and fear other gods, ⁸ and walk in the statutes of the nations that Jehovah dispossessed from the presence of the sons of Israel, and of the kings of Israel that they made; ⁹ and the sons of Israel do covertly things that [are] not right against Jehovah their God, and build for them high places in all their cities, from a tower of the watchers unto the fenced city, ¹⁰ and set up for them standing-pillars and shrines on every high height, and under every green tree, ¹¹ and make perfume there in all high places, like the nations that Jehovah removed from their presence, and do evil things to provoke Jehovah, ¹² and serve the idols, of which Jehovah said to them, `Ye do not do this thing;' <sup>13</sup> And Jehovah testifieth against Israel, and against Judah, by the hand of every prophet, and every seer, saying, `Turn back from your evil ways, and keep My commands, My statutes, according to all the law that I commanded your fathers, and that I sent unto you by the hand of My servants the prophets;' ¹⁴ and they have not hearkened, and harden their neck, like the neck of their fathers, who did not remain stedfast in Jehovah their God, ¹⁵ and reject His statutes and His covenant that He made with their fathers, and His testimonies that He testified against them, and go after the vain thing, and become vain, and after the nations that are round about them, of whom Jehovah commanded them not to do like them; ¹⁶ And they forsake all the commands of Jehovah their God, and make to them a molten image -- two calves, and make a shrine, and bow themselves to all the host of the heavens, and serve 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
And Abram falleth upon his face, and God speaketh with him, saying,

Genesis 17:6
and I have made thee exceeding fruitful, and made thee become nations, and kings go out from thee.

Genesis 17:9
And God saith unto Abraham, `And thou dost keep My covenant, thou and thy seed after thee, to their generations;

Genesis 17:11
and ye have circumcised the flesh of your foreskin, and it hath become a token of a covenant between Me and you.

Genesis 17:12
`And a son of eight days is circumcised by you; every male to your generations, born in the house, or bought with money from any son of a stranger, who is not of thy seed;

Genesis 17:18
And Abraham saith unto God, `O that Ishmael may live before Thee;'

Genesis 17:19
and God saith, `Sarah thy wife is certainly bearing a son to thee, and thou hast called his name Isaac, and I have established My covenant with him, for a covenant age-during, to his seed after him.

Genesis 17:25
and Ishmael his son [is] a son of thirteen years in the flesh of his foreskin being circumcised;

Genesis 17:26
in this self-same day hath Abraham been circumcised, and Ishmael his son;

Genesis 34:15
`Only for this we consent to you; if ye be as we, to have every male of you 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.