2 Kings 17:10

KJV1611 – Modern English

They set up images and groves on every high hill and under every green tree.

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  • 1 Kgs 14:23 : 23 For they also built for themselves high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree.
  • 2 Kgs 16:4 : 4 And he sacrificed and burned incense in the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.
  • Mic 5:14 : 14 And I will uproot your wooden images from the midst of you; so will I destroy your cities.
  • Exod 34:13 : 13 But you shall destroy their altars, break their sacred pillars, and cut down their wooden images.
  • Lev 26:1 : 1 You shall make no idols nor carved image, neither set up a standing image, nor shall you set up any image of stone in your land to bow down to it: for I am the LORD your God.
  • Deut 12:2-3 : 2 You shall completely destroy all the places where the nations you are dispossessing served their gods, on the high mountains, on the hills, and under every green tree: 3 And you shall tear down their altars, break their pillars, and burn their groves with fire; and you shall cut down the carved images of their gods, and obliterate their names from that place.
  • Deut 16:21 : 21 You shall not plant for yourself any grove of trees near to the altar of the LORD your God, which you shall make for yourself.
  • Isa 57:5 : 5 Inflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the cliffs of the rocks?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 Kgs 14:23
    90%

    23 For they also built for themselves high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree.

  • Jer 17:2
    85%

    2 While their children remember their altars and their groves by the green trees upon the high hills.

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

    11 There they burned incense on all the high places, as the nations had done whom the LORD carried away before them; and they did wicked things to provoke the LORD to anger.

    12 For they served idols, of which the LORD had said to them, You shall not do this thing.

  • 2 Kgs 17:7-9
    3 verses
    81%

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

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

    9 The children of Israel secretly did things that were not right against the LORD their God, and they built for themselves high places in all their cities, from the watchtower to the fortified city.

  • Isa 57:5
    79%

    5 Inflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the cliffs of the rocks?

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

    16 They left all the commandments of the LORD their God, made for themselves cast images, even two calves, made a grove, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served Baal.

    17 They caused their sons and daughters to pass through the fire, practiced divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.

  • 2 Chr 28:4
    78%

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

  • Judg 3:7
    78%

    7 And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and forgot the LORD their God, and served Baalim and the groves.

  • Deut 12:2-3
    2 verses
    77%

    2 You shall completely destroy all the places where the nations you are dispossessing served their gods, on the high mountains, on the hills, and under every green tree:

    3 And you shall tear down their altars, break their pillars, and burn their groves with fire; and you shall cut down the carved images of their gods, and obliterate their names from that place.

  • Deut 16:21-22
    2 verses
    77%

    21 You shall not plant for yourself any grove of trees near to the altar of the LORD your God, which you shall make for yourself.

    22 Neither shall you set up for yourself any image, which the LORD your God hates.

  • Exod 34:13
    76%

    13 But you shall destroy their altars, break their sacred pillars, and cut down their wooden images.

  • Hos 4:13
    76%

    13 They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and elms, because the shade thereof is good. Therefore your daughters shall commit harlotry, and your spouses shall commit adultery.

  • 2 Kgs 16:4
    75%

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

  • Jer 3:6
    75%

    6 The LORD also said to me in the days of Josiah the king, Have you seen what backsliding Israel has done? She has gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there has played the harlot.

  • Isa 17:8-9
    2 verses
    74%

    8 And he shall not look to the altars, the work of his hands, neither shall he respect that which his fingers have made, either the groves or the images.

    9 In that day his strong cities shall be as a forsaken bough, and an uppermost branch, which they left because of the children of Israel: and there shall be desolation.

  • Hos 10:1-2
    2 verses
    74%

    1 Israel is an empty vine, he brings forth fruit for himself: according to the multitude of his fruit he has increased the altars; according to the goodness of his land they have made beautiful images.

    2 Their heart is divided; now they shall be found guilty: he shall break down their altars, he shall ruin their images.

  • Ps 78:58
    74%

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

  • Deut 7:5
    74%

    5 But thus shall you deal with them; you shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire.

  • Deut 29:17
    74%

    17 And you have seen their abominations, and their idols of wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them:)

  • Ezek 20:28
    74%

    28 For when I had brought them into the land, for which I lifted up my hand to give it to them, then they saw every high hill, and all the thick trees, and they offered there their sacrifices, and there they presented the provoking of their offering: there also they made their sweet savor, and poured out there their drink offerings.

  • 2 Chr 24:18
    74%

    18 And they left the house of the LORD God of their fathers, and served groves and idols; and wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem for this their trespass.

  • 2 Kgs 21:7
    73%

    7 And he set up the carved image of the Asherah he had made, in the house of which the LORD said to David and to Solomon his son, 'In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all tribes of Israel, I will put my name forever:'

  • 2 Kgs 17:32
    73%

    32 They feared the LORD and appointed from among themselves priests of the high places, who sacrificed for them in the shrines of the high places.

  • Judg 18:31
    73%

    31 And they set up for themselves Micah's carved image, which he made, all the time that the house of God was in Shiloh.

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

    29 However, every nation made gods of their own and put them in the shrines of the high places which the Samaritans had made, each nation in the cities where they lived.

    30 The men of Babylon made Succoth-Benoth, the men of Cuth made Nergal, the men of Hamath made Ashima,

  • Ezek 6:13
    73%

    13 Then shall you know that I am the LORD, when their slain men shall be among their idols around their altars, on every high hill, in all the tops of the mountains, and under every green tree, and under every thick oak, the places where they offered sweet aroma to all their idols.

  • 2 Chr 31:1
    72%

    1 Now when all this was finished, all Israel who were present went out to the cities of Judah, and broke the images in pieces, and cut down the groves, and threw down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, in Ephraim also and Manasseh, until they had utterly 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%

    14 And he smashed the images, cut down the groves, and filled their places with the bones of men.

    15 Moreover, the altar that was at Bethel, and the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had made, both that altar and the high place he broke down, and burned the high place, and ground it to powder, and burned the Asherah.

  • Hos 10:8
    72%

    8 The high places of Aven, the sin of Israel, shall be destroyed: thorns and thistles shall grow on their altars; and they shall say to the mountains, 'Cover us,' and to the hills, 'Fall on us.'

  • 2 Chr 14:3
    72%

    3 For he took away the altars of the foreign gods, and the high places, and broke down the images, and cut down the groves.

  • 2 Kgs 21:3
    72%

    3 For he rebuilt the high places that Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he erected altars for Baal, and made an Asherah pole, as Ahab king of Israel had done; and worshiped all the host of heaven, and served them.

  • Judg 2:11
    71%

    11 And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and served Baalim:

  • 2 Kgs 23:6
    71%

    6 And he brought out the Asherah from the house of the LORD, outside Jerusalem, to the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, ground it to powder, and cast its powder on the graves of the common people.

  • Isa 2:14
    71%

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

  • 2 Kgs 13:6
    71%

    6 Nevertheless, they did not depart from the sins of the house of Jeroboam, who made Israel sin, but walked in them, and the Asherah pole also remained in Samaria.

  • Hos 11:2
    71%

    2 As they were called, so they went from them: they sacrificed to Baal, and burned incense to carved images.

  • Mic 5:14
    71%

    14 And I will uproot your wooden images from the midst of you; so will I destroy your cities.

  • 2 Kgs 17:41
    71%

    41 These nations feared the LORD, yet served their carved images. Their children and their children's children have continued doing as their fathers did, to this day.

  • Jer 10:3
    71%

    3 For the customs of the people are vain: for one cuts a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.