2 Kings 17:10

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

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  • 1 Kgs 14:23 : 23 They also built for themselves high places, sacred stones, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every spreading tree.
  • 2 Kgs 16:4 : 4 He offered sacrifices and burned incense on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.
  • Mic 5:14 : 14 In anger and wrath, I will execute vengeance on the nations that have not obeyed.
  • Exod 34:13 : 13 Instead, you must destroy their altars, smash their sacred pillars, and cut down their Asherah poles.
  • Lev 26:1 : 1 Do not make idols for yourselves, or set up a carved image or a sacred pillar for yourselves, and do not place a figured stone in your land to bow down to it, for I am the LORD your God.
  • Deut 12:2-3 : 2 Completely destroy all the places where the nations you are dispossessing worshiped their gods—on the high mountains, on the hills, and under every green tree. 3 Tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, burn their Asherah poles with fire, cut down their carved idols, and obliterate the names of their gods from those places.
  • Deut 16:21 : 21 You shall not plant for yourself an Asherah pole of any tree beside the altar of the Lord your God that you will set up for yourself.
  • Isa 57:5 : 5 You burn with lust among the oaks, under every green tree; you slaughter children in the valleys, under crags of the cliffs.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 Kgs 14:23
    90%

    23 They also built for themselves high places, sacred stones, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every spreading tree.

  • Jer 17:2
    85%

    2 Even their children remember their altars and their Asherah poles beside the green trees on the high hills.

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

    11 There, on all the high places, they burned incense as the nations whom the Lord had driven out before them had done. They did wicked things that provoked the Lord to anger.

    12 They served idols, about which the Lord had said to them, 'You shall not do this thing.'

  • 2 Kgs 17:7-9
    3 verses
    81%

    7 This happened because the Israelites sinned against the Lord their God, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh, king of Egypt. They worshiped other gods.

    8 They followed the practices of the nations whom the Lord had driven out before the Israelites, as well as the practices of the kings of Israel that they themselves had introduced.

    9 The Israelites secretly did things against the Lord their God that were not right. They built high places in all their towns, from watchtower to fortified city.

  • Isa 57:5
    79%

    5 You burn with lust among the oaks, under every green tree; you slaughter children in the valleys, under crags of the cliffs.

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

    16 They abandoned all the commandments of the Lord their God. They made for themselves two cast idols in the form of calves, made an Asherah pole, worshiped all the host of heaven, and served Baal.

    17 They sacrificed their sons and daughters in the fire, practiced divination and sorcery, and sold themselves to do what was evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking Him to anger.

  • 2 Chr 28:4
    78%

    4 He offered sacrifices and burned incense on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.

  • Judg 3:7
    78%

    7 The Israelites did evil in the sight of the Lord. They forgot the Lord their God and served the Baals and the Asherahs.

  • Deut 12:2-3
    2 verses
    77%

    2 Completely destroy all the places where the nations you are dispossessing worshiped their gods—on the high mountains, on the hills, and under every green tree.

    3 Tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, burn their Asherah poles with fire, cut down their carved idols, and obliterate the names of their gods from those places.

  • Deut 16:21-22
    2 verses
    77%

    21 You shall not plant for yourself an Asherah pole of any tree beside the altar of the Lord your God that you will set up for yourself.

    22 And you shall not set up for yourself a sacred pillar, which the Lord your God hates.

  • Exod 34:13
    76%

    13 Instead, you must destroy their altars, smash their sacred pillars, and cut down their Asherah poles.

  • Hos 4:13
    76%

    13 They sacrifice on the mountaintops and burn offerings on the hills, under oaks, poplars, and terebinths, where the shade is pleasant. Therefore your daughters turn to prostitution and your daughters-in-law to adultery.

  • 2 Kgs 16:4
    75%

    4 He offered sacrifices and burned incense on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.

  • Jer 3:6
    75%

    6 During the reign of King Josiah, the LORD said to me, "Have you seen what faithless Israel has done? She has gone up on every high hill and under every spreading tree and has prostituted herself there."

  • Isa 17:8-9
    2 verses
    74%

    8 They will not look to the altars, the work of their hands, nor will they regard what their fingers have made, neither the Asherim nor the incense altars.

    9 In that day, their strong cities will be like the forsaken places of the wooded heights and hilltops that were abandoned because of the Israelites, and there will be desolation.

  • Hos 10:1-2
    2 verses
    74%

    1 Israel is a luxuriant vine that yields its fruit. The more abundant his fruit, the more altars he built. The richer his land, the more he adorned sacred pillars.

    2 Their hearts are divided; now they must bear their guilt. He will tear down their altars and destroy their sacred pillars.

  • Ps 78:58
    74%

    58 They angered Him with their high places and provoked His jealousy with their carved images.

  • Deut 7:5
    74%

    5 Instead, this is what you must do to them: Tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, chop down their Asherah poles, and burn their carved images with fire.

  • Deut 29:17
    74%

    17 Make sure there is no man or woman, family, or tribe among you whose heart turns away today from the LORD our God to go and serve the gods of these nations. Make sure there is no root among you that produces poisonous and bitter fruit.

  • Ezek 20:28
    74%

    28 When I brought them into the land that I swore to give them, and they saw every high hill and every leafy tree, they offered their sacrifices there, provoked me with their offerings, placed their pleasing aromas, and poured out their drink offerings there.

  • 2 Chr 24:18
    74%

    18 They abandoned the house of the Lord, the God of their ancestors, and started worshiping the Asherah poles and idols. As a result, God's wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem because of their guilt.

  • 2 Kgs 21:7
    73%

    7 He placed the carved Asherah image he had made in the house about which the LORD had 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, I will put My name forever.

  • 2 Kgs 17:32
    73%

    32 They feared the Lord, but they also appointed for themselves all sorts of priests for the high places, who made sacrifices for them in the shrines of the high places.

  • Judg 18:31
    73%

    31 They kept the carved image that Micah had made throughout the time the house of God was in Shiloh.

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

    29 But each nation made its own gods and set them up in the shrines of the high places that the Samaritans had made—each nation in the towns where they lived.

    30 The men from Babylon made Sukkoth Benoth, the men from Cuthah made Nergal, and the men from Hamath made Ashima.

  • Ezek 6:13
    73%

    13 And you will know that I am the LORD, when their slain are among their idols, around their altars, on every high hill, on all the tops of the mountains, under every leafy tree, and under every thick oak—the places where they offered fragrant incense to all their idols.

  • 2 Chr 31:1
    72%

    1 When all this had been completed, all the Israelites who were present went out to the towns of Judah and broke the sacred pillars, cut down the Asherah poles, and demolished the high places and the altars throughout Judah, Benjamin, Ephraim, and Manasseh, until they had destroyed them completely. Then all the Israelites returned to their own cities, each to their own property.

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

    14 He smashed the sacred pillars to pieces, cut down the Asherah poles, and filled their places with human bones.

    15 Even the altar at Bethel, the high place that Jeroboam son of Nebat had made, the one who caused Israel to sin—even that altar and the high place he tore down. He burned the high place, crushed it to dust, and burned the Asherah pole that was there.

  • Hos 10:8
    72%

    8 The high places of wickedness will be destroyed—it is the sin of Israel. Thorns and thistles will grow over their altars. Then they will say to the mountains, 'Cover us!' and to the hills, 'Fall on us!

  • 2 Chr 14:3
    72%

    3 He commanded Judah to seek the Lord, the God of their ancestors, and to obey the law and the commandment.

  • 2 Kgs 21:3
    72%

    3 He rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed, set up altars for Baal, and made an Asherah, as King Ahab of Israel had done. He bowed down to all the host of heaven and served them.

  • Judg 2:11
    71%

    11 The Israelites did evil in the eyes of the LORD and served the Baals.

  • 2 Kgs 23:6
    71%

    6 He brought out the Asherah pole from the house of the Lord to the Kidron Valley outside Jerusalem, burned it in the Kidron Valley, ground it to ashes, and threw the ashes on the graves of the common people.

  • Isa 2:14
    71%

    14 It will come against all the high mountains and against all the lofty hills.

  • 2 Kgs 13:6
    71%

    6 However, they did not turn away from the sins of the house of Jeroboam, who had led Israel to sin, but continued in them; even the Asherah pole remained in Samaria.

  • Hos 11:2
    71%

    2 But the more they were called, the more they went away from them; they sacrificed to the Baals and burned incense to the carved images.

  • Mic 5:14
    71%

    14 In anger and wrath, I will execute vengeance on the nations that have not obeyed.

  • 2 Kgs 17:41
    71%

    41 So these nations feared the Lord, but they also served their carved images. Their children and grandchildren continued to do as their fathers did, even to this day.

  • Jer 10:3
    71%

    3 For the customs of the nations are worthless. They cut down a tree from the forest; it is shaped by the hands of a craftsman with a chisel.