2 Kings 17:10
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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.

Lexicon
They set up
וַיַּצִּ֧בוּ (way·yaṣ·ṣi·ḇū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 5324: To take one's stand, stand

for themselves
לָהֶ֛ם (lā·hem)
Preposition | third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew

[sacred] pillars
מַצֵּב֖וֹת (maṣ·ṣê·ḇō·wṯ)
Noun - feminine plural
Strong's Hebrew 4676: Something stationed, a column, an idol

and Asherah poles
וַאֲשֵׁרִ֑ים (wa·’ă·šê·rîm)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine plural
Strong's Hebrew 842: A Phoenician goddess, also an image of the same

on
עַ֚ל (‘al)
Preposition
Strong's Hebrew 5921: Above, over, upon, against

every
כָּל־ (kāl-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 3605: The whole, all, any, every

high
גְבֹהָ֔ה (ḡə·ḇō·hāh)
Adjective - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1364: Elevated, powerful, arrogant

hill
גִּבְעָ֣ה (giḇ·‘āh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1389: A hillock

and under
וְתַ֖חַת (wə·ṯa·ḥaṯ)
Conjunctive waw | Preposition
Strong's Hebrew 8478: The bottom, below, in lieu of

every
כָּל־ (kāl-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 3605: The whole, all, any, every

green
רַעֲנָֽן׃ (ra·‘ă·nān)
Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7488: Verdant, new, prosperous

tree.
עֵ֥ץ (‘êṣ)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6086: Tree, trees, wood


Additional Translations
They set up for themselves sacred pillars and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.And they set them up images and groves in every high hill, and under every green tree:

and they set them up pillars and Asherim upon every high hill, and under every green tree;

and they built for themselves high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fortified city. And they made for themselves pillars and groves on every high hill, and under every shady tree.

And they set them up columns and Asherahs on every high hill and under every green tree;

and they set them up pillars and Asherim upon every high hill, and under every green tree:

And they set up for themselves images and groves on every high hill, and under every green tree:

and they set them up pillars and Asherim on every high hill, and under every green tree;

and set up for them standing-pillars and shrines on every high height, and under every green tree,
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