2 Kings 17:10
Good News Translation
On all the hills and under every shady tree they put up stone pillars and images of the goddess Asherah,

New Revised Standard Version
they set up for themselves pillars and sacred poles on every high hill and under every green tree;

Contemporary English Version
They also built stone images of foreign gods and set up sacred poles for the worship of Asherah on every hill and under every shady tree.

New American Bible
They set up pillars and asherahs for themselves on every high hill and under every green tree.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they made them statues and groves on every high hill, and under every shady tree:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And they made them statues and groves on every high hill, and under every shady tree:

they set

2 Kings 16:4 He sacrificed also, and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.

Exodus 34:13 But destroy their altars, break their statues and cut down their groves:

Leviticus 26:1 I am the Lord your God. You shall not make to yourselves any idol or graven thing: neither shall you erect pillars, nor set up a remarkable stone in your land, to adore it. For I am the Lord your God.

1 Kings 14:23 For they also built them altars, and statues, and groves, upon every high hill, and under every green tree:

Isaiah 57:5 Who seek your comfort in idols under every green tree, sacrificing children in the torrents, under the high rocks?

images [heb] statues

Deuteronomy 16:21 Thou shalt plant no grove, nor any tree near the altar of the Lord thy God:

Micah 5:14 And I will pluck up thy groves out of the midst of thee: and will crush thy cities.

in every

2 Kings 16:4 He sacrificed also, and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.

1 Kings 14:23 For they also built them altars, and statues, and groves, upon every high hill, and under every green tree:

Deuteronomy 12:2,3 Destroy all the places in which the nations, that you shall possess, worshipped their gods upon high mountains, and hills, and under every shady tree: . . .

Context
Israel Exiled Because of Idolatry
9And the children of Israel offended the Lord, their God, with things that were not right: and built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city. 10And they made them statues and groves on every high hill, and under every shady tree:11And they burnt incense there upon altars, after the manner of the nations which the Lord had removed from their face: and they did wicked things, provoking the Lord.…
Cross References
Exodus 34:12
Beware thou never join in friendship with the inhabitants of that land, which may be thy ruin:

Exodus 34:13
But destroy their altars, break their statues and cut down their groves:

Deuteronomy 12:2
Destroy all the places in which the nations, that you shall possess, worshipped their gods upon high mountains, and hills, and under every shady tree:

1 Kings 14:23
For they also built them altars, and statues, and groves, upon every high hill, and under every green tree:

2 Kings 17:11
And they burnt incense there upon altars, after the manner of the nations which the Lord had removed from their face: and they did wicked things, provoking the Lord.

Micah 5:14
And I will pluck up thy groves out of the midst of thee: and will crush thy cities.

2 Kings 17:9
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