2 Kings 17:8-10

Revised Geneva Translation

⁸ and walked according to the statutes of the heathen, whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel, and after those of the kings of Israel which they had made,

⁹ and the children of Israel had secretly done things that were not upright before the LORD their God, and had built high places throughout all their cities, from the watchtower to the defensed city,

¹⁰ and had made themselves images and groves upon every high hill and under every green tree,