2 Kings 17:10

American Standard Version (1901)

and they set them up pillars and Asherim upon every high hill, and under every green tree;

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Kgs 14:23 : 23 For they also built them high places, and pillars, and Asherim, on every high hill, and under every green tree;
  • 2 Kgs 16:4 : 4 And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.
  • Mic 5:14 : 14 and I will pluck up thine Asherim out of the midst of thee; and I will destroy thy cities.
  • Exod 34:13 : 13 but ye shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and ye shall cut down their Asherim
  • Lev 26:1 : 1 Ye shall make you no idols, neither shall ye rear you up a graven image, or a pillar, neither shall ye place any figured stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I am Jehovah your God.
  • Deut 12:2-3 : 2 Ye shall surely destroy all the places wherein the nations that ye shall dispossess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree: 3 and ye shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and burn their Asherim with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods; and ye shall destroy their name out of that place.
  • Deut 16:21 : 21 Thou shalt not plant thee an Asherah of any kind of tree beside the altar of Jehovah thy God, which thou shalt make thee.
  • Isa 57:5 : 5 ye that inflame yourselves among the oaks, under every green tree; that slay the children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 Kgs 14:23
    90%

    23For they also built them high places, and pillars, and Asherim, on every high hill, and under every green tree;

  • Jer 17:2
    85%

    2whilst their children remember their altars and their Asherim by the green trees upon the high hills.

  • 2 Kgs 17:11-12
    2 verses
    83%

    11and there they burnt incense in all the high places, as did the nations whom Jehovah carried away before them; and they wrought wicked things to provoke Jehovah to anger;

    12and they served idols, whereof Jehovah had said unto them, Ye shall not do this thing.

  • 2 Kgs 17:7-9
    3 verses
    81%

    7And it was so, because the children of Israel had sinned against Jehovah their God, who brought them up out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods,

    8and walked in the statutes of the nations, whom Jehovah cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they made.

    9And the children of Israel did secretly things that were not right against Jehovah their God: and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fortified city;

  • Isa 57:5
    79%

    5ye that inflame yourselves among the oaks, under every green tree; that slay the children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks?

  • 2 Kgs 17:16-17
    2 verses
    79%

    16And they forsook all the commandments of Jehovah their God, and made them molten images, even two calves, and made an Asherah, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served Baal.

    17And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, to provoke him to anger.

  • 2 Chr 28:4
    78%

    4And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.

  • Judg 3:7
    78%

    7And the children of Israel did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, and forgat Jehovah their God, and served the Baalim and the Asheroth.

  • Deut 12:2-3
    2 verses
    77%

    2Ye shall surely destroy all the places wherein the nations that ye shall dispossess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree:

    3and ye shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and burn their Asherim with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods; and ye shall destroy their name out of that place.

  • Deut 16:21-22
    2 verses
    77%

    21Thou shalt not plant thee an Asherah of any kind of tree beside the altar of Jehovah thy God, which thou shalt make thee.

    22Neither shalt thou set thee up a pillar; which Jehovah thy God hateth.

  • Exod 34:13
    76%

    13but ye shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and ye shall cut down their Asherim

  • Hos 4:13
    76%

    13They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and terebinths, because the shadow thereof is good: therefore your daughters play the harlot, and your brides commit adultery.

  • 2 Kgs 16:4
    75%

    4And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.

  • Jer 3:6
    75%

    6Moreover Jehovah said unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen that which backsliding Israel hath done? she is gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there hath played the harlot.

  • Isa 17:8-9
    2 verses
    74%

    8And they shall not look to the altars, the work of their hands; neither shall they have respect to that which their fingers have made, either the Asherim, or the sun-images.

    9In that day shall their strong cities be as the forsaken places in the wood and on the mountain top, which were forsaken from before the children of Israel; and it shall be a desolation.

  • Hos 10:1-2
    2 verses
    74%

    1Israel is a luxuriant vine, that putteth forth his fruit: according to the abundance of his fruit he hath multiplied his altars; according to the goodness of their land they have made goodly [ pillars.

    2Their heart is divided; now shall they be found guilty: he will smite their altars, he will destroy their pillars.

  • Ps 78:58
    74%

    58For they provoked him to anger with their high places, And moved him to jealousy with their graven images.

  • Deut 7:5
    74%

    5But thus shall ye deal with them: ye shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and hew down their Asherim, and burn their graven images with fire.

  • Deut 29:17
    74%

    17and ye have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them);

  • Ezek 20:28
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    28For when I had brought them into the land, which I sware to give unto them, then they saw every high hill, and every thick tree, and they offered there their sacrifices, and there they presented the provocation of their offering; there also they made their sweet savor, and they poured out there their drink-offerings.

  • 2 Chr 24:18
    74%

    18And they forsook the house of Jehovah, the God of their fathers, and served the Asherim and the idols: and wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem for this their guiltiness.

  • 2 Kgs 21:7
    73%

    7And he set the graven image of Asherah, that he had made, in the house of which Jehovah said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever;

  • 2 Kgs 17:32
    73%

    32So they feared Jehovah, and made unto them from among themselves priests of the high places, who sacrificed for them in the houses of the high places.

  • Judg 18:31
    73%

    31So they set them up Micah's graven image which he made, all the time that the house of God was in Shiloh.

  • 2 Kgs 17:29-30
    2 verses
    73%

    29Howbeit every nation made gods of their own, and put them in the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation in their cities wherein they dwelt.

    30And the men of Babylon made Succoth-benoth, and the men of Cuth made Nergal, and the men of Hamath made Ashima,

  • Ezek 6:13
    73%

    13And ye shall know that I am Jehovah, when their slain men shall be among their idols round about their altars, upon every high hill, on all the tops of the mountains, and under every green tree, and under every thick [ oak, the places where they offered sweet savor to all their idols.

  • 2 Chr 31:1
    72%

    1Now when all this was finished, all Israel that were present went out to the cities of Judah, and brake in pieces the pillars, and hewed down the Asherim, and brake down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, in Ephraim also and Manasseh, until they had destroyed them all. Then all the children of Israel returned, every man to his possession, into their own cities.

  • 2 Kgs 23:14-15
    2 verses
    72%

    14And he brake in pieces the pillars, and cut down the Asherim, and filled their places with the bones of men.

    15Moreover the altar that was at Beth-el, and the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had made, even that altar and the high place he brake down; and he burned the high place and beat it to dust, and burned the Asherah.

  • Hos 10:8
    72%

    8The high places also of Aven, the sin of Israel, shall be destroyed: the thorn and the thistle shall come up on their altars; and they shall say to the mountains, Cover us; and to the hills, Fall on us.

  • 2 Chr 14:3
    72%

    3for he took away the foreign altars, and the high places, and brake down the pillars, and hewed down the Asherim,

  • 2 Kgs 21:3
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    3For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, and made an Asherah, as did Ahab king of Israel, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.

  • Judg 2:11
    71%

    11And the children of Israel did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, and served the Baalim;

  • 2 Kgs 23:6
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    6And he brought out the Asherah from the house of Jehovah, without Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and beat it to dust, and cast the dust thereof upon the graves of the common people.

  • Isa 2:14
    71%

    14and upon all the high mountains, and upon all the hills that are lifted up,

  • 2 Kgs 13:6
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    6Nevertheless they departed not from the sins of the house of Jeroboam, wherewith he made Israel to sin, but walked therein: and there remained the Asherah also in Samaria.)

  • Hos 11:2
    71%

    2The more [the prophets] called them, the more they went from them: they sacrificed unto the Baalim, and burned incense to graven images.

  • Mic 5:14
    71%

    14and I will pluck up thine Asherim out of the midst of thee; and I will destroy thy cities.

  • 2 Kgs 17:41
    71%

    41So these nations feared Jehovah, and served their graven images; their children likewise, and their children's children, as did their fathers, so do they unto this day.

  • Jer 10:3
    71%

    3For the customs of the peoples are vanity; for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman with the axe.