Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
They set up for themselves stone pillars and poles of Asherah worship on every high hill and under every green tree.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
And they set them up images and groves in every high hill, and under every green tree:
Holman Bible
They set up for themselves sacred pillars
International Standard Version
They set up pillars and Asherim on every high hill and in the shade of every green tree,
A Conservative Version
And they set up for them pillars and Asherim upon every high hill, and under every green tree,
American Standard Version
and they set them up pillars and Asherim upon every high hill, and under every green tree;
Amplified
They set up for themselves sacred pillars (memorial stones) and
Bible in Basic English
They put up pillars of stone and wood on every high hill and under every green tree:
Darby Translation
And they set them up columns and Asherahs on every high hill and under every green tree;
Julia Smith Translation
And they will set to them statues and images upon every high hill, and under every green tree.
King James 2000
And they set them up images and idol poles on every high hill, and under every green tree:
Modern King James verseion
And they set up images and Asherahs for themselves in every high hill, and under every green tree.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And they made them images and groves on every high hill and under every green tree.
NET Bible
They set up sacred pillars and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.
New Heart English Bible
and they set them up pillars and Asherim on every high hill, and under every green tree;
The Emphasized Bible
And they set up for themselves pillars and Sacred Stems, upon every high hill, and under every green tree;
Webster
And they set up for themselves images and groves 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;
Youngs Literal Translation
and set up for them standing-pillars and shrines on every high height, and under every green tree,
Themes
Assyria » Israelites carried captive into
Fear » The reward for fearing other gods
Following » The reward for following vanity
Groves » Worshiped by israelites
Idolatry » Captivity of israel on account of
Judgments » Delivered » Into the hands of the assyrians
Rulers' » Wicked » Instances of » In permitting baal-worship
Interlinear
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Gaboahh
References
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in 2 Kings 17:10
Verse Info
Context Readings
Israel Deported To Assyria And The Reasons It Fell
9 The {Israelites} secretly did things which [were] not right, against Yahweh their God; they built high places for themselves in all their towns, from the watchtower up to the fortified city. 10 They set up for themselves stone pillars and poles of Asherah worship on every high hill and under every green tree. 11 They burned incense there on all the high places, like the nations which Yahweh deported before them, and they did evil things to provoke Yahweh.
Cross References
1 Kings 14:23
They also built for themselves high places and stone pillars and sacred poles on every high hill and under every green tree.
Exodus 34:13
Rather, you will tear down their altars, and you will break their stone pillars, and you will cut off their Asherah poles.
2 Kings 16:4
He sacrificed and offered incense on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.
Micah 5:14
And I will uproot your Asherahs from among you, and I will destroy your cities.
Leviticus 26:1
" 'You shall not make for yourselves idols and divine images, and you shall not raise up stone pillars for yourselves, and you shall not put a sculptured stone in your land in order to worship before it, because I [am] Yahweh your God.
Deuteronomy 12:2-3
You must completely demolish all [of] the places there where [they] served their gods, [that is], the nations whom you [are] about to dispossess, on the high mountains, and on the hills and under each leafy green tree.
Deuteronomy 16:21
You shall not plant for yourselves {an Asherah pole} beside the altar of Yahweh your God that you make for yourselves.
Isaiah 57:5
who burn with lust among the oaks, under every leafy tree, who slaughter children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks?