Parallel Verses

The Emphasized Bible

And they set up for themselves pillars and Sacred Stems, upon every high hill, and under every green tree;

New American Standard Bible

They set for themselves sacred 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:

Holman Bible

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

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 Asherim on 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:

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;

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,

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
נצב 
Natsab 
Usage: 75

מצּבה 
Matstsebah 
Usage: 32

and groves
אשׁירה אשׁרה 
'asherah 
Usage: 40

in every high
גּבוהּ גּבהּ 
Gaboahh 
Usage: 37

גּבעה 
Gib`ah 
Usage: 69

רענן 
Ra`anan 
Usage: 20

References

Context Readings

Israel Deported To Assyria And The Reasons It Fell

9 And the sons of Israel did, secretly, things which were not right, against Yahweh their God, - and built for themselves high places in all their cities, from the watchmen's tower, to the fortified city. 10 And they set up for themselves pillars and Sacred Stems, upon every high hill, and under every green tree; 11 and burned incense there, in all the high places, like the nations whom Yahweh drave out from before them, - and did things that were wicked, so as to provoke Yahweh to anger;

Cross References

1 Kings 14:23

And, they also, built for themselves high places and pillars, and Sacred Stems, - upon every high hill, and under every green tree.

Exodus 34:13

For their altars, shall ye smash, And their pillars, shall ye shiver, - And their sacred-stems, shall ye fell.

2 Kings 16:4

and he offered sacrifice and burned incense in the high places, and on the hills, - and under every green tree.

Micah 5:14

And I will uproot thy Sacred Stems out of thy midst, - and will destroy thy cities:

Leviticus 26:1

Ye shall not make unto you idols, - neither image nor pillar, shall ye set up for yourselves, nor sculptured stone, shall ye place in your land, to bow yourselves down thereunto,-For, I Yahweh, am your God.

Deuteronomy 12:2-3

Ye must utterly destroy, all the places where the nations whom ye are dispossessing have served their gods, - Upon the high mountains And upon the hills, And under every green tree;

Deuteronomy 16:21

Thou shalt not plant thee, as a sacred stem, any tree, - near unto the altar of Yahweh thy God which thou shalt make for thyself;

Isaiah 57:5

Who inflame yourselves With the terebinths, Under every green tree - Slaying the children, In the torrent-valleys, Under the clefts of the crags:

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