2 Kings 17:10

10 They put up stone pillars to gods and Asherah idols on every high hill and under 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 lived like the nations the Lord had forced out of the land ahead of them. They lived as their evil kings had shown them,

9 secretly sinning against the Lord their God. They built places to worship gods in all their cities, from the watchtower to the strong, walled city.

10 They put up stone pillars to gods and Asherah idols on every high hill and under every green tree.

11 The Israelites burned incense everywhere gods were worshiped, just as the nations who lived there before them had done, whom the Lord had forced out of the land. The Israelites did wicked things that made the Lord angry.

12 They served idols when the Lord had said, "You must not do this."