2 Kings 17:10 Cross References - ISV

¹⁰ They set up pillars and Asherim on every high hill and in the shade of every green tree,

¹³ Rather, you are to tear down their altars, you are to smash their sacred pillars, and you are to cut down their sacred poles—

¹ Rewards for Obedience“You are not to make worthless idols, images, or pillars for yourselves, nor set up for yourselves carved images to bow down to them in the land, because I am the LORD your God.

² Be sure you destroy there all the places where the nations that you’re going to dispossess serve their gods—upon the high mountains and hills and under every leafy tree. ³ Tear down their altars, cut down their sacred poles, and burn them. Cut down the carved images of their gods to erase their memory from that place.”

²¹ Prohibited Practices“You are not to set up a sacred pole beside the altar of the LORD your God that you will build.

²³ They erected high places, sacred pillars, and Asherim for themselves on every high hill and under every green tree.

⁴ Furthermore, Ahaz sacrificed and burned incense on the high places, on top of hills, and under every green tree.

⁵ you who burn with lust among the oaks, under every spreading tree, who slaughter your children in the ravines, under the clefts of the rocks?

¹⁴ I will uproot your cultic gods from you, and I will tear down your cities.