2 Kings 17:10

World English Bible (2000)

and they set them up pillars and Asherim on 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 He sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.
  • Mic 5:14 : 14 I will uproot your Asherim out of your midst; and I will destroy your cities.
  • Exod 34:13 : 13 but you shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and you shall cut down their Asherim;
  • Lev 26:1 : 1 "'You shall make for yourselves no idols, neither shall you raise up an engraved image or a pillar, neither shall you place any figured stone in your land, to bow down to it: for I am Yahweh your God.
  • Deut 12:2-3 : 2 You shall surely destroy all the places in which the nations that you shall dispossess served their gods, on the high mountains, and on the hills, and under every green tree: 3 and you shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and burn their Asherim with fire; and you shall cut down the engraved images of their gods; and you shall destroy their name out of that place.
  • Deut 16:21 : 21 You shall not plant for yourselves an Asherah of any kind of tree beside the altar of Yahweh your God, which you shall make for yourselves.
  • Isa 57:5 : 5 you who inflame yourselves among the oaks, under every green tree; who kill 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%

    2while their children remember their altars and their Asherim by the green trees on 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 Yahweh carried away before them; and they worked wicked things to provoke Yahweh to anger;

    12and they served idols, of which Yahweh had said to them, "You shall not do this thing."

  • 2 Kgs 17:7-9
    3 verses
    81%

    7It was so, because the children of Israel had sinned against Yahweh 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 Yahweh cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they made.

    9The children of Israel did secretly things that were not right against Yahweh 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%

    5you who inflame yourselves among the oaks, under every green tree; who kill the children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks?

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

    16They forsook all the commandments of Yahweh their God, and made them molten images, even two calves, and made an Asherah, and worshiped all the army of the sky, and served Baal.

    17They 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 Yahweh, to provoke him to anger.

  • 2 Chr 28:4
    78%

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

  • Judg 3:7
    78%

    7The children of Israel did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and forgot Yahweh their God, and served the Baals and the Asheroth.

  • Deut 12:2-3
    2 verses
    77%

    2You shall surely destroy all the places in which the nations that you shall dispossess served their gods, on the high mountains, and on the hills, and under every green tree:

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

  • Deut 16:21-22
    2 verses
    77%

    21You shall not plant for yourselves an Asherah of any kind of tree beside the altar of Yahweh your God, which you shall make for yourselves.

    22Neither shall you set yourself up a pillar; which Yahweh your God hates.

  • Exod 34:13
    76%

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

  • Hos 4:13
    76%

    13They sacrifice on the tops of the mountains, and burn incense on the hills, under oaks and poplars and terebinths, because its shade is good. Therefore your daughters play the prostitute, and your brides commit adultery.

  • 2 Kgs 16:4
    75%

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

  • Jer 3:6
    75%

    6Moreover, Yahweh said to me in the days of Josiah the king, "Have you seen that which backsliding Israel has done? She has gone up on every high mountain and under every green tree, and there has played the prostitute.

  • Isa 17:8-9
    2 verses
    74%

    8They will not look to the altars, the work of their hands; neither shall they respect that which their fingers have made, either the Asherim, or the incense altars.

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

  • Hos 10:1-2
    2 verses
    74%

    1Israel is a luxuriant vine that puts forth his fruit. According to the abundance of his fruit he has multiplied his altars. As their land has prospered, they have adorned their sacred stones.

    2Their heart is divided. Now they will be found guilty. He will demolish their altars. He will destroy their sacred stones.

  • Ps 78:58
    74%

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

  • Deut 7:5
    74%

    5But you shall deal with them like this: you shall break down their altars, and dash their pillars in pieces, and cut down their Asherim, and burn their engraved images with fire.

  • Deut 29:17
    74%

    17and you 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 swore to give to 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 pleasant aroma, and they poured out there their drink offerings.

  • 2 Chr 24:18
    74%

    18They forsook the house of Yahweh, the God of their fathers, and served the Asherim and the idols: and wrath came on Judah and Jerusalem for this their guiltiness.

  • 2 Kgs 21:7
    73%

    7He set the engraved image of Asherah, that he had made, in the house of which Yahweh 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 forever;

  • 2 Kgs 17:32
    73%

    32So they feared Yahweh, and made to 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 engraved image which he made, all the time that the house of God was in Shiloh.

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

    29However 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 in which they lived.

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

  • Ezek 6:13
    73%

    13You shall know that I am Yahweh, when their slain men shall be among their idols around their altars, on 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 pleasant aroma to all their idols.

  • 2 Chr 31:1
    72%

    1Now when all this was finished, all Israel who were present went out to the cities of Judah, and broke in pieces the pillars, and cut down the Asherim, and broke 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%

    14He broke in pieces the pillars, and cut down the Asherim, and filled their places with the bones of men.

    15Moreover the altar that was at Bethel, 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 broke 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, will be destroyed. The thorn and the thistle will come up on their altars. They will tell the mountains, "Cover us!" and the hills, "Fall on us!"

  • 2 Chr 14:3
    72%

    3for he took away the foreign altars, and the high places, and broke down the pillars, and cut down the Asherim,

  • 2 Kgs 21:3
    72%

    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 worshiped all the army of the sky, and served them.

  • Judg 2:11
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    11The children of Israel did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and served the Baals;

  • 2 Kgs 23:6
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    6He brought out the Asherah from the house of Yahweh, outside of Jerusalem, to the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and beat it to dust, and cast its dust on the graves of the common people.

  • Isa 2:14
    71%

    14For all the high mountains, for all the hills that are lifted up,

  • 2 Kgs 13:6
    71%

    6Nevertheless they didn't depart from the sins of the house of Jeroboam, with which he made Israel to sin, but walked therein: and there remained the Asherah also in Samaria.)

  • Hos 11:2
    71%

    2They called to them, so they went from them. They sacrificed to the Baals, and burned incense to engraved images.

  • Mic 5:14
    71%

    14I will uproot your Asherim out of your midst; and I will destroy your cities.

  • 2 Kgs 17:41
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    41So these nations feared Yahweh, and served their engraved images. Their children likewise, and their children's children, as their fathers did, so they do to this day.

  • Jer 10:3
    71%

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