2nd Kings Chapter 17 verse 10 Holy Bible
and they set them up pillars and Asherim upon every high hill, and under every green tree;
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They put up pillars of stone and wood on every high hill and under every green tree:
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And they set them up columns and Asherahs on every high hill and under every green tree;
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And they set them up images and groves in every high hill, and under every green tree:
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And they set up for themselves images and groves on every high hill, and under every green tree:
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and they set them up pillars and Asherim on every high hill, and under every green tree;
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and set up for them standing-pillars and shrines on every high height, and under every green tree,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 10. - And they set them up images; rather, pillars (comp. Gem 28:18, 22; 31:13, 45, 51, 52; 35:14, 20; Exodus 24:4; Deuteronomy 12:3; 2 Samuel 18:18, where the same word is so rendered). The matse voth were stone pillars, anciently connected with the worship of Baal, but in Judah perhaps used in a debased and debasing worship of Jehovah with self-invented rites, instead of those which had the express sanction of God, being commanded in the Law (see the 'Speaker's Commentary,' vol. 1.p. 417). And groves (compare the comment on 1 Kings 14:14 and
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(10) Images and groves.--Pillars and Asheras--i.e., sacred trunks.The second degree of guilt: the setting up of idolatrous symbols.
