2 Chronicles 14:3

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

He removed the pagan altars and the high places, smashed the sacred pillars, and cut down the Asherah poles.

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  • Deut 7:5 : 5 Instead, this is what you must do to them: You must tear down their altars, shatter their sacred pillars, cut down their sacred Asherah poles, and burn up their idols.
  • Exod 34:13 : 13 Rather you must destroy their altars, smash their images, and cut down their Asherah poles.
  • 1 Kgs 15:12-14 : 12 He removed the male cultic prostitutes from the land and got rid of all the disgusting idols his ancestors had made. 13 He also removed Maacah his grandmother from her position as queen mother because she had made a loathsome Asherah pole. Asa cut down her loathsome pole and burned it in the Kidron Valley. 14 The high places were not eliminated, yet Asa was wholeheartedly devoted to the LORD throughout his lifetime.
  • 2 Kgs 23:14 : 14 He smashed the sacred pillars to bits, cut down the Asherah poles, and filled those shrines with human bones.
  • 2 Chr 15:17 : 17 The high places were not eliminated from Israel, yet Asa was wholeheartedly devoted to the LORD throughout his lifetime.
  • 2 Chr 34:4 : 4 He ordered the altars of the Baals to be torn down, and broke the incense altars that were above them. He smashed the Asherah poles, idols and images, crushed them up and sprinkled the dust over the tombs of those who had sacrificed to them.
  • 2 Kgs 18:4 : 4 He eliminated the high places, smashed the sacred pillars to bits, and cut down the Asherah pole. He also demolished the bronze serpent that Moses had made, for up to that time the Israelites had been offering incense to it; it was called Nehushtan.
  • 2 Kgs 23:6 : 6 He removed the Asherah pole from the LORD’s temple and took it outside Jerusalem to the Kidron Valley, where he burned it. He smashed it to dust and then threw the dust in the public graveyard.
  • Lev 26:30 : 30 I will destroy your high places and cut down your incense altars, and I will stack your dead bodies on top of the lifeless bodies of your idols. I will abhor you.
  • Deut 7:25 : 25 You must burn the images of their gods, but do not covet the silver and gold that covers them so much that you take it for yourself and thus become ensnared by it; for it is abhorrent to the LORD your God.
  • Judg 6:25-28 : 25 Gideon Destroys the Altar That night the LORD said to him,“Take the bull from your father’s herd, as well as a second bull, one that is seven years old. Pull down your father’s Baal altar and cut down the nearby Asherah pole. 26 Then build an altar for the LORD your God on the top of this stronghold according to the proper pattern. Take the second bull and offer it as a burnt sacrifice on the wood from the Asherah pole that you cut down.” 27 So Gideon took ten of his servants and did just as the LORD had told him. He was too afraid of his father’s family and the men of the city to do it in broad daylight, so he waited until nighttime. 28 When the men of the city got up the next morning, they saw the Baal altar pulled down, the nearby Asherah pole cut down, and the second bull sacrificed on the newly built altar.
  • 1 Kgs 11:7-8 : 7 Furthermore, on the hill east of Jerusalem Solomon built a high place for the detestable Moabite god Chemosh and for the detestable Ammonite god Milcom. 8 He built high places for all his foreign wives so they could burn incense and make sacrifices to their gods.
  • 1 Kgs 14:22-24 : 22 Judah did evil in the sight of the LORD. They made him more jealous by their sins than their ancestors had done. 23 They even built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree. 24 There were also male cultic prostitutes in the land. They committed the same horrible sins as the nations that the LORD had driven out from before the Israelites.

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  • 2 Kgs 23:12-15
    4 verses
    82%

    12The king tore down the altars the kings of Judah had set up on the roof of Ahaz’s upper room, as well as the altars Manasseh had set up in the two courtyards of the LORD’s temple. He crushed them up and threw the dust in the Kidron Valley.

    13The king ruined the high places east of Jerusalem, south of the Mount of Destruction, that King Solomon of Israel had built for the detestable Sidonian goddess Astarte, the detestable Moabite god Chemosh, and the horrible Ammonite god Milcom.

    14He smashed the sacred pillars to bits, cut down the Asherah poles, and filled those shrines with human bones.

    15He also tore down the altar in Bethel at the high place made by Jeroboam son of Nebat, who encouraged Israel to sin. He burned all the combustible items at that high place and crushed them to dust; including the Asherah pole.

  • 2 Chr 34:3-7
    5 verses
    82%

    3In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young, he began to seek the God of his ancestor David. In his twelfth year he began ridding Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, Asherah poles, idols, and images.

    4He ordered the altars of the Baals to be torn down, and broke the incense altars that were above them. He smashed the Asherah poles, idols and images, crushed them up and sprinkled the dust over the tombs of those who had sacrificed to them.

    5He burned the bones of the pagan priests on their altars; he purified Judah and Jerusalem.

    6In the cities of Manasseh, Ephraim, and Simeon, as far as Naphtali, and in the ruins around them,

    7he tore down the altars and Asherah poles, demolished the idols, and smashed all the incense altars throughout the land of Israel. Then he returned to Jerusalem.

  • 2 Chr 33:15
    81%

    15He removed the foreign gods and images from the LORD’s temple and all the altars he had built on the hill of the LORD’s temple and in Jerusalem; he threw them outside the city.

  • 1 Kgs 15:11-15
    5 verses
    81%

    11Asa did what the LORD approved like his ancestor David had done.

    12He removed the male cultic prostitutes from the land and got rid of all the disgusting idols his ancestors had made.

    13He also removed Maacah his grandmother from her position as queen mother because she had made a loathsome Asherah pole. Asa cut down her loathsome pole and burned it in the Kidron Valley.

    14The high places were not eliminated, yet Asa was wholeheartedly devoted to the LORD throughout his lifetime.

    15He brought the holy items that he and his father had made into the LORD’s temple, including the silver, gold, and other articles.

  • Exod 34:13
    80%

    13Rather you must destroy their altars, smash their images, and cut down their Asherah poles.

  • 2 Chr 15:16-18
    3 verses
    79%

    16King Asa also removed Maacah his grandmother from her position as queen mother because she had made a loathsome Asherah pole. Asa cut down her loathsome pole and crushed and burned it in the Kidron Valley.

    17The high places were not eliminated from Israel, yet Asa was wholeheartedly devoted to the LORD throughout his lifetime.

    18He brought the holy items that his father and he had made into God’s temple, including the silver, gold, and other articles.

  • 2 Chr 31:1
    79%

    1When all this was over, the Israelites who were in the cities of Judah went out and smashed the sacred pillars, cut down the Asherah poles, and demolished all the high places and altars throughout Judah, Benjamin, Ephraim, and Manasseh. Then all the Israelites returned to their own homes in their cities.

  • 2 Chr 17:6
    79%

    6He was committed to following the LORD; he even removed the high places and Asherah poles from Judah.

  • 2 Chr 15:8
    78%

    8When Asa heard these words and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he was encouraged. He removed the detestable idols from the entire land of Judah and Benjamin and from the cities he had seized in the Ephraimite hill country. He repaired the altar of the LORD in front of the porch of the LORD’s temple.

  • Deut 12:3
    78%

    3You must tear down their altars, shatter their sacred pillars, burn up their sacred Asherah poles, and cut down the images of their gods; you must eliminate their very memory from that place.

  • 2 Chr 14:2
    77%

    2Asa’s Religious and Military Accomplishments(14:1) Asa did what the LORD his God desired and approved.

  • 2 Chr 14:4-5
    2 verses
    77%

    4He ordered Judah to seek the LORD God of their ancestors and to observe his law and commands.

    5He removed the high places and the incense altars from all the cities of Judah. The kingdom had rest under his rule.

  • Deut 7:5
    77%

    5Instead, this is what you must do to them: You must tear down their altars, shatter their sacred pillars, cut down their sacred Asherah poles, and burn up their idols.

  • 2 Kgs 18:4
    77%

    4He eliminated the high places, smashed the sacred pillars to bits, and cut down the Asherah pole. He also demolished the bronze serpent that Moses had made, for up to that time the Israelites had been offering incense to it; it was called Nehushtan.

  • 2 Kgs 23:6-7
    2 verses
    76%

    6He removed the Asherah pole from the LORD’s temple and took it outside Jerusalem to the Kidron Valley, where he burned it. He smashed it to dust and then threw the dust in the public graveyard.

    7He tore down the quarters of the male cultic prostitutes in the LORD’s temple, where women were weaving shrines for Asherah.

  • 2 Chr 19:3
    76%

    3Nevertheless you have done some good things; you removed the Asherah poles from the land and you were determined to follow God.”

  • 2 Kgs 21:3
    75%

    3He rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed; he set up altars for Baal and made an Asherah pole just like King Ahab of Israel had done. He bowed down to all the stars in the sky and worshiped them.

  • 2 Chr 33:3
    74%

    3He rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed; he set up altars for the Baals and made Asherah poles. He bowed down to all the stars in the sky and worshiped them.

  • 2 Chr 32:12
    73%

    12Hezekiah is the one who eliminated the LORD’s high places and altars and then told Judah and Jerusalem,“At one altar you must worship and offer sacrifices.”

  • 1 Kgs 14:23
    73%

    23They even built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.

  • Isa 27:9
    73%

    9So in this way Jacob’s sin will be forgiven, and this is how they will show they are finished sinning: They will make all the stones of the altars like crushed limestone, and the Asherah poles and the incense altars will no longer stand.

  • Judg 6:30
    73%

    30The men of the city said to Joash,“Bring out your son, so we can execute him! He pulled down the Baal altar and cut down the nearby Asherah pole.”

  • Mic 5:13-14
    2 verses
    73%

    13I will remove your idols and sacred pillars from your midst; you will no longer worship what your own hands made.

    14I will uproot your images of Asherah from your midst, and destroy your idols.

  • 2 Kgs 14:4
    72%

    4But the high places were not eliminated; the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense on the high places.

  • 2 Kgs 15:4
    72%

    4But the high places were not eliminated; the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense on the high places.

  • 2 Chr 28:24
    72%

    24Ahaz gathered the items in God’s temple and removed them. He shut the doors of the LORD’s temple and erected altars on every street corner in Jerusalem.

  • 2 Kgs 23:19
    72%

    19Josiah also removed all the shrines on the high places in the cities of Samaria. The kings of Israel had made them and angered the LORD. He did to them what he had done to the high place in Bethel.

  • 2 Chr 30:14
    72%

    14They removed the altars in Jerusalem; they also removed all the incense altars and threw them into the Kidron Valley.

  • 2 Kgs 17:10
    72%

    10They set up sacred pillars and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.

  • 2 Kgs 15:35
    72%

    35But the high places were not eliminated; the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense on the high places. He built the Upper Gate to the LORD’s temple.

  • 1 Kgs 22:43
    71%

    43He followed in his father Asa’s footsteps and was careful to do what the LORD approved.(22:44) However, the high places were not eliminated; the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense on the high places.

  • 2 Chr 28:4
    71%

    4He offered sacrifices and burned incense on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.

  • Judg 6:26
    71%

    26Then build an altar for the LORD your God on the top of this stronghold according to the proper pattern. Take the second bull and offer it as a burnt sacrifice on the wood from the Asherah pole that you cut down.”

  • Hos 10:2
    71%

    2Their hearts are slipping; soon they will be punished for their guilt. The LORD will break their altars; he will completely destroy their fertility pillars.