Verse 10
2 Kings 17:10
American Standard Version
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and they set them up pillars and Asherim upon every high hill, and under every green tree;
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יַּצִּ֧בוּ לָ/הֶ֛ם מַצֵּב֖וֹת וַ/אֲשֵׁרִ֑ים עַ֚ל כָּל גִּבְעָ֣ה גְבֹהָ֔ה וְ/תַ֖חַת כָּל עֵ֥ץ רַעֲנָֽן
English Translation
And they set up monuments and sacred poles on every high hill and under every leafy tree.
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Chapter 17 Context
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In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah began Hoshea the son of Elah to reign in Samaria over Isra...
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And he did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, yet not as the kings of Israel that were bef...
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Against him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria; and Hoshea became his servant, and brought him trib...
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And the king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea; for he had sent messengers to So king of Egypt,...
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Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it th...
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In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away unto Assyria,...
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And it was so, because the children of Israel had sinned against Jehovah their God (Elohim), who bro...
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and walked in the statutes of the nations, whom Jehovah cast out from before the children of Israel,...
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And the children of Israel did secretly things that were not right against Jehovah their God (Elohim...
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and they set them up pillars and Asherim upon every high hill, and under every green tree;
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and there they burnt incense in all the high places, as did the nations whom Jehovah carried away be...
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and they served idols, whereof Jehovah had said unto them, Ye shall not do this thing.
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Yet Jehovah testified unto Israel, and unto Judah, by every prophet, and every seer, saying, Turn ye...
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Notwithstanding, they would not hear, but hardened their neck, like to the neck of their fathers, wh...
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And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonie...
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And they forsook all the commandments of Jehovah their God (Elohim), and made them molten images, ev...
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And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and enc...
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Therefore Jehovah was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight: there was none left...
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Also Judah kept not the commandments of Jehovah their God (Elohim), but walked in the statutes of Is...
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And Jehovah rejected all the seed of Israel, and afflicted them, and delivered them into the hand of...
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For he rent Israel from the house of David; and they made Jeroboam the son of Nebat king: and Jerobo...
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And the children of Israel walked in all the sins of Jeroboam which he did; they departed not from t...
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until Jehovah removed Israel out of his sight, as he spake by all his servants the prophets. So Isra...
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And the king of Assyria brought men from Babylon, and from Cuthah, and from Avva, and from Hamath an...
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And so it was, at the beginning of their dwelling there, that they feared not Jehovah: therefore Jeh...
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Wherefore they spake to the king of Assyria, saying, The nations which thou hast carried away, and p...
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Then the king of Assyria commanded, saying, Carry thither one of the priests whom ye brought from th...
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So one of the priests whom they had carried away from Samaria came and dwelt in Beth-el, and taught...
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Howbeit every nation made gods of their own, and put them in the houses of the high places which the...
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And the men of Babylon made Succoth-benoth, and the men of Cuth made Nergal, and the men of Hamath m...
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and the Avvites made Nibhaz and Tartak; and the Sepharvites burnt their children in the fire to Adra...
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So they feared Jehovah, and made unto them from among themselves priests of the high places, who sac...
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They feared Jehovah, and served their own gods, after the manner of the nations from among whom they...
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Unto this day they do after the former manner: they fear not Jehovah, neither do they after their st...
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with whom Jehovah had made a covenant, and charged them, saying, Ye shall not fear other gods, nor b...
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but Jehovah, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt with great power and with an outstretched a...
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and the statutes and the ordinances, and the law and the commandment, which he wrote for you, ye sha...
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and the covenant that I have made with you ye shall not forget; neither shall ye fear other gods:
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but Jehovah your God (Elohim) shall ye fear; and he will deliver you out of the hand of all your ene...
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Howbeit they did not hearken, but they did after their former manner.
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So these nations feared Jehovah, and served their graven images; their children likewise, and their...
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