2 Kings 17:10
Meaning, cross-references, and a prayer for 2 Kings 17:10 — by Collins Asein
Quick Summary
2 Kings 17:10 is a verse from the book of 2 Kings in the Old Testament. The KJV reads: "And they set them up images and groves in every high hill, and under every green tree: images: Heb. statues" Below you will find the full verse text, cross-references, meaning, and a prayer based on this scripture.
2 Kings 17:10 — KJV
“And they set them up images and groves in every high hill, and under every green tree: images: Heb. statues”
— 2 Kings 17:10 (KJV)
2 Kings 17:10 in Context — About the Book of 2 Kings
2 Kings races through the divided kingdom's final centuries — Elisha's double-portion miracles, kings good and evil, and finally exile to Assyria and Babylon. Yet miracles keep breaking in: floating axe heads, healed lepers, resurrection. God stays powerfully present even in national decline.
Cross-References for 2 Kings 17:10
“For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree. images: or, standing images, or, statues”
Shares key themes with 2 Kings 17:10: images, groves, every
“Ye 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: possess: or, inherit”
Shares key themes with 2 Kings 17:10: every, high, hill
“He sacrificed also and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.”
Shares key themes with 2 Kings 17:10: every, high, hill
“Now when all this was finished, all Israel that were present went out to the cities of Judah, and brake the images in pieces, and cut down the groves, and threw down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, in Ephraim also and Manasseh, until they had utterly destroyed them all. Then all the children of Israel returned, every man to his possession, into their own cities. present: Heb. found images: Heb. statues until...: Heb. until to make an end”
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“For of old time I have broken thy yoke, and burst thy bands; and thou saidst, I will not transgress; when upon every high hill and under every green tree thou wanderest, playing the harlot. transgress: or, serve”
Shares key themes with 2 Kings 17:10: every, high, hill
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