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2 Kings 17:10

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And they set them up images and groves in every high hill, and under every green tree:
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  1. 1 Kings 14:23Rank 1 from verse 10
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    23For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree.

  2. Micah 5:14Rank 2 from verse 10
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    14And I will pluck up thy groves out of the midst of thee: so will I destroy thy cities.

  3. 2 Kings 16:4Rank 3 from verse 10
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    4And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.

  4. Exodus 34:13Rank 4 from verse 10
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    13But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves:

  5. Deuteronomy 12:2–3Rank 5 from verse 10
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    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.

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2 Kings 17:10

COMBINED MEANING

set

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1. To put or place a person or thing in a position, relation, or condition; when passive, to be so placed, fixed, or adorned. 2. To establish, fix, appoint, assign, prescribe, or determine. 3. To arrange, prepare, present, display, or put in order or array. 4. To direct, turn, or firmly apply the face, heart, eyes, mind, affection, or action toward something. 5. To start, advance, send out, proceed on a course or work, or make an attack, as in set forward, set forth, or set upon where those meanings apply. 6. To value or esteem; or, in set at nought or set light by, to despise. 7. Of the sun, to go down.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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images

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Likenesses, representations, or visible forms; often idols when made or used as objects of worship.

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groves

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1. Groups of trees. 2. Objects or places connected with idolatrous worship.

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in

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1. A preposition marking position, presence, state, circumstance, manner, means, sphere, reference, relation, association, or participation. 2. As an adverb, inward, inside, or into the place or position referred to.

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every

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Each individual or member of the class, group, place, time, side, or kind named; all distributively.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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high

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Sense 1: Elevated or far above; great in height, stature, or position; aloft. Sense 2: Elevated or chief in rank, office, power, authority, honor, excellence, or importance. Sense 3: Great in degree, intensity, fullness, or advancement; loud or strongly expressed. Sense 4: Proud, haughty, or self-exalting. Sense 5: Difficult, lofty, or beyond reach or understanding. Sense 6: In high way, a principal or public road; in high place, an elevated site, often used for worship or sacrifice.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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green

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Having the color of living vegetation; fresh, flourishing, or not dried.

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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:

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11And there they burnt incense in all the high places, as did the heathen whom the Lord carried away before them; and wrought wicked things to provoke the Lord to anger:

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