they also] As well as the ten tribes. built] To serve their idols, as the heathen, Deuteronomy 12:2. images] Or, standing images, or statues. under every green tree] Under the broad, fair, flourishing trees on those hils they built altars, 2 Chronicles 28:4. Isaiah 57:5. The things which being erected by others God commanded his people to destroy (Deuteronomy 7:5.) they presumptuously erect.