Parallel Verses
Darby Translation
And they set them up columns and Asherahs 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:
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 Jehovah their God things that were not right; and they built them high places in all their cities, from the watchmen's tower to the fortified city. 10 And they set them up columns and Asherahs on every high hill and under every green tree; 11 and there they burned incense on all the high places, as did the nations that Jehovah had carried away from before them, and they wrought wicked things to provoke Jehovah to anger;
Cross References
1 Kings 14:23
And they also built for themselves high places, and columns, and Asherahs on every high hill and under every green tree;
Exodus 34:13
but ye shall demolish their altars, shatter their statues, and hew down their Asherahs.
2 Kings 16:4
And he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.
Micah 5:14
And I will pluck up thine Asherahs out of the midst of thee, and I will destroy thy cities.
Leviticus 26:1
Ye shall make yourselves no idols, neither rear you up for yourselves carved image, or statue, nor shall ye set up a figured stone in your land, to bow down unto it; for I am Jehovah your God.
Deuteronomy 12:2-3
Ye shall utterly destroy all the places wherein the nations which ye shall dispossess have served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree;
Deuteronomy 16:21
Thou shalt not plant thyself an Asherah of any wood near unto the altar of Jehovah thy God, which thou shalt make thee.
Isaiah 57:5
inflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clefts of the rocks?