10And they set them up images and groves in every high hill, and under every green tree:
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For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree.
And I will pluck up thy groves out of the midst of thee: so will I destroy thy cities.
But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves:
And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.
Thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees near unto the altar of the LORD thy God, which thou shalt make thee.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 7-23)Though the destruction of the kingdom of the ten tribes was but briefly related, it is in these verses largely commented upon by our historian, and the reasons of it assigned, not taken from the second causes—the weakness of Israel, their impolitic management, and the strength and growing greatness of the Assyrian monarch (these things are overlooked)--but only from the First Cause. Observe, 1. It…
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