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2 Kings 17

2 Kings 17:10 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Andw they set them up
natsab (Hebrew #5324)
to station, in various applications (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: appointed, deputy, erect, establish, X Huzzah (by mistake for a proper name), lay, officer, pillar, present, rear up, set (over, up), settle, sharpen, establish, (make to) stand(-ing, still, up, upright), best state.
Pronounce: naw-tsab'
Origin: a prim root
θimages
matstsebah (Hebrew #4676)
something stationed, i.e. a column or (memorial stone); by analogy, an idol
KJV usage: garrison, (standing) image, pillar.
Pronounce: mats-tsay-baw'
Origin: feminine (causatively) participle of 5324
and groves
'asherah (Hebrew #842)
from 833; happy; Asherah (or Astarte) a Phoenician goddess; also an image of the same
KJV usage: grove. Compare 6253.
Pronounce: ash-ay-raw'
Origin: or masheyrah {ash-ay-raw'}
x iny every high
gaboahh (Hebrew #1364)
from 1361; elevated (or elated), powerful, arrogant
KJV usage: haughty, height, high(-er), lofty, proud, X exceeding proudly.
Pronounce: gaw-bo'-ah
Origin: or (fully) gabowahh {gaw-bo'-ah}
hill
gib`ah (Hebrew #1389)
a hillock
KJV usage: hill, little hill.
Pronounce: ghib-aw'
Origin: feminine from the same as 1387
, and under every green
ra`anan (Hebrew #7488)
verdant; by analogy, new; figuratively, prosperous
KJV usage: green, flourishing.
Pronounce: rah-an-awn'
Origin: from an unused root meaning to be green
tree
`ets (Hebrew #6086)
a tree (from its firmness); hence, wood (plural sticks)
KJV usage: + carpenter, gallows, helve, + pine, plank, staff, stalk, stick, stock, timber, tree, wood.
Pronounce: ates
Origin: from 6095
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1 Kings 14:23• 23For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree. (1 Kings 14:23)
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Isa. 57:5• 5Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks? (Isa. 57:5)
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statues.
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Deut. 16:21• 21Thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees near unto the altar of the Lord thy God, which thou shalt make thee. (Deut. 16:21)
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Mic. 5:14• 14And I will pluck up thy groves out of the midst of thee: so will I destroy thy cities. (Mic. 5:14)
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2 Kings 16:4• 4And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree. (2 Kings 16:4)
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Deut. 12:2• 2Ye shall utterly destroy all the places, wherein the nations which ye shall possess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree: (Deut. 12:2)

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Cross References

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they set.
2 Kings 16:4• 4And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree. (2 Kings 16:4)
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Ex. 34:13• 13But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves: (Ex. 34:13)
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Lev. 26:1• 1Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye set up any image of stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I am the Lord your God. (Lev. 26:1)
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1 Kings 14:23• 23For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree. (1 Kings 14:23)
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Isa. 57:5• 5Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks? (Isa. 57:5)
images.
Heb. statues.
groves.
Deut. 16:21• 21Thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees near unto the altar of the Lord thy God, which thou shalt make thee. (Deut. 16:21)
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Mic. 5:14• 14And I will pluck up thy groves out of the midst of thee: so will I destroy thy cities. (Mic. 5:14)
in every.
2 Kings 16:4• 4And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree. (2 Kings 16:4)
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1 Kings 14:23• 23For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree. (1 Kings 14:23)
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Deut. 12:2‑3• 2Ye shall utterly destroy all the places, wherein the nations which ye shall possess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree:
 3And ye shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their groves with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods, and destroy the names of them out of that place. (Deut. 12:2‑3)

J. N. Darby Translation

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

JND Translation Notes

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See ch. 3.2.