And they set them up images and groves in every high hill, and under every green tree:
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Gill's Exposition
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…
Adam Clarke
Images and groves - Images of different idols, and places for the abominable rites of Ashtaroth or Venus.
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…
Cambridge Bible
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.
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