2 Kings 17:10
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New International Version (©2011)
They set up sacred stones and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every spreading tree.

New Living Translation (©2007)
They set up sacred pillars and Asherah poles at the top of every hill and under every green tree.

English Standard Version (©2001)
They set up for themselves pillars and Asherim on every high hill and under every green tree,

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
They set for themselves sacred pillars and Asherim on every high hill and under every green tree,

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And they set them up images and groves in every high hill, and under every green tree:

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
They set up for themselves sacred pillars and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.

International Standard Version (©2012)
They set up pillars and Asherim on every high hill and in the shade of every green tree,

NET Bible (©2006)
They set up sacred pillars and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
They set up sacred stones and poles dedicated to the goddess Asherah on every high hill and under every large tree.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And they set them up images and idol poles on every high hill, and under every green tree:

American King James Version
And they set them up images and groves in every high hill, and under every green tree:

American Standard Version
and they set them up pillars and Asherim upon 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:

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

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

Webster's Bible Translation
And they set up for themselves images and groves on every high hill, and under every green tree:

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

Young's Literal Translation
and set up for them standing-pillars and shrines on every high height, and under every green tree,

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

17:7-23 Though the destruction of the kingdom of the ten tribes was but briefly related, it is in these verses largely commented upon, and the reasons of it given. It was destruction from the Almighty: the Assyrian was but the rod of his anger, Isa 10:5. Those that bring sin into a country or family, bring a plague into it, and will have to answer for all the mischief that follows. And vast as the outward wickedness of the world is, the secret sins, evil thoughts, desires, and purposes of mankind are much greater. There are outward sins which are marked by infamy; but ingratitude, neglect, and enmity to God, and the idolatry and impiety which proceed therefrom, are far more malignant. Without turning from every evil way, and keeping God's statutes, there can be no true godliness; but this must spring from belief of his testimony, as to wrath against all ungodliness and unrighteousness, and his mercy in Christ Jesus.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 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 in every high hill - rather, on every high hill - and under every green tree. Mote that the "groves" (ash,-rim) were "set up under green trees," and must therefore have been artificial structures of some kind, such as could stand beneath their boughs.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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 (h).

(h) Agreement of Customs between the East Indians and Jews, art. 5. p. 34.

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Israel Exiled Because of Idolatry
…9And the children of Israel did secretly those things that were not right against the LORD their God, and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city. 10And they set them up images and groves in every high hill, and under every green tree: 11And there they burnt incense in all the high places, as did the heathen whom the LORD carried away before them; and worked wicked things to provoke the LORD to anger: …

Exodus 34:12 Be careful not to make a treaty with those who live in the land where you are going, or they will be a snare among you.
Exodus 34:13 Break down their altars, smash their sacred stones and cut down their Asherah poles.
Deuteronomy 12:2 Destroy completely all the places on the high mountains, on the hills and under every spreading tree, where the nations you are dispossessing worship their gods.
1 Kings 14:23 They also set up for themselves high places, sacred stones and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every spreading tree.
2 Kings 17:11 At every high place they burned incense, as the nations whom the LORD had driven out before them had done. They did wicked things that aroused the LORD's anger.
Micah 5:14 I will uproot from among you your Asherah poles when I demolish your cities.