2 Kings 17:10

10 They set up sacred pillars and sacred poles on every high hill and beneath every green tree.

2 Kings 17:10 Meaning and Commentary

2 Kings 17:10

And they set them up images and groves in every high hill,
and under every green tree.
] That is, statues and idols; for groves of trees could not be set under green trees; but they placed idols of stone, and of wood, as the latter were, in such places as Heathens were wont to do; see ( Jeremiah 3:6 ) (See Gill on 1 Kings 14:23), so the Indians to this day have idols dispersed here and there in the fields, placed in little groves, or at the foot of some hill that casts a shadow ^F8.

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FOOTNOTES:

F8 Agreement of Customs between the East Indians and Jews, art. 5. p. 34.

2 Kings 17:10 In-Context

8 They followed the practices of the nations that the LORD had removed before the Israelites, as well as the practices that the Israelite kings had done.

9 The Israelites secretly did things against the LORD their God that weren't right. They built shrines in all their towns, from watchtowers to fortified cities.

10 They set up sacred pillars and sacred poles on every high hill and beneath every green tree.

11 At every shrine they burned incense, just as the nations did that the LORD sent into exile before them. They did evil things that made the LORD angry.

12 They worshipped images about which the LORD had said, Don't do such things!

Footnotes

• [a]. Heb asherim, perhaps objects devoted to the goddess Asherah