Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 2 Kings 17:10
And they set them up images and groves in every high hill, and under every green tree:
10. images and groves ] R.V. pillars and Asherim upon. On the ‘pillars’ see note on 2Ki 3:2, and on the Asherim, which were probably wooden images of a goddess Asherah, see on 2Ki 13:6.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Verse 10. Images and groves] Images of different idols, and places for the abominable rites of Ashtaroth or Venus.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the 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 Jer 3:6
[See comments on 1Ki 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.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(10) Images and groves.Pillars and Asherasi.e., sacred trunks.
The second degree of guilt: the setting up of idolatrous symbols.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
10. Images groves See note on 1Ki 14:15; 1Ki 14:23.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
2Ki 17:10 And they set them up images and groves in every high hill, and under every green tree:
Ver. 10. In every high hill. ] Where they “poured forth their whoredoms,” Eze 16:20-26 and “this had been their custom from their youth.” Eze 23:8
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
images = statues
groves = ‘Asherah. See note on Exo 34:13, and App-42.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
they set: 2Ki 16:4, Exo 34:13, Lev 26:1, 1Ki 14:23, Isa 57:5
images: Heb. statues
groves: Deu 16:21, Mic 5:14
in every: 2Ki 16:4, 1Ki 14:23, Deu 12:2, Deu 12:3
Reciprocal: Lev 17:5 – in the open 2Ki 17:16 – a grove