Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
They put up pillars of stone and wood 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
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:
Lexham Expanded Bible
They set up for themselves stone pillars and poles of Asherah worship 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
Natsab
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 And the children of Israel did secretly against the Lord their God things which were not right, building high places for themselves in all their towns, from the tower of the watchmen to the walled town. 10 They put up pillars of stone and wood on every high hill and under every green tree: 11 Burning their offerings in all the high places, as those nations did whom the Lord sent away from before them; they did evil things, moving the Lord to wrath;
Cross References
1 Kings 14:23
For they made high places and upright stones and wood pillars on every high hill and under every green tree;
Exodus 34:13
But their altars are to be overturned and their pillars broken and their images cut down:
2 Kings 16:4
And he made offerings, burning them in the high places and on the hills and under every green tree.
Micah 5:14
I will have your Asherahs pulled up from among you: and I will send destruction on your images.
Leviticus 26:1
Do not make images of false gods, or put up an image cut in stone or a pillar or any pictured stone in your land, to give worship to it; for I am the Lord your God.
Deuteronomy 12:2-3
You are to give up to the curse all those places where the nations, whom you are driving out, gave worship to their gods, on the high mountains and the hills and under every green tree:
Deuteronomy 16:21
Let no holy tree of any sort be planted by the altar of the Lord your God which you will make.
Isaiah 57:5
You who are burning with evil desire among the oaks, under every green tree; putting children to death in the valleys, under the cracks of the rocks?