2 Kings 17:10
And they set them up images and groves in every high hill, and under every green tree:
Context
This verse from 2 Kings Chapter 17 connects to 9 cross-references. The Assyrian king Shalmaneser besieges Samaria for three years; his successor Sargon II deports Israel to Assyria. The theological analysis is explicit: Israel fell because they sinned against God from the exodus onward, following other gods, erecting high places, and …
Other Translations
and they set them up pillars and Asherim upon every high hill, and under every green tree;
and set up for them standing-pillars and shrines on every high height, and under every green tree,
They put up pillars of stone and wood on every high hill and under every green tree:
Cross References
But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves:
Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye set …
Ye shall utterly destroy all the places, wherein the nations which ye shall possess served their gods, upon the high …
And ye shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their groves with fire; and ye shall hew …
Thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees near unto the altar of the Lord thy God, which …
For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree.
And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.
Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks?
And I will pluck up thy groves out of the midst of thee: so will I destroy thy cities.