2 Chronicles 14:5

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

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  • 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 Chr 34:7 : 7 he 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.

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  • 2 Chr 14:6-7
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    6He built fortified cities throughout Judah, for the land was at rest and there was no war during those years; the LORD gave him peace.

    7He said to the people of Judah:“Let’s build these cities and fortify them with walls, towers, and barred gates. The land remains ours because we have followed the LORD our God; we have followed him, and he has made us secure on all sides.” So they built the cities and prospered.

  • 2 Chr 33:15-16
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    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.

    16He erected the altar of the LORD and offered on it peace offerings and thank offerings. He told the people of Judah to serve the LORD God of Israel.

  • 2 Chr 17:6
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    6He was committed to following the LORD; he even removed the high places and Asherah poles from Judah.

  • 2 Chr 14:3-4
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    3He removed the pagan altars and the high places, smashed the sacred pillars, and cut down the Asherah poles.

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

  • 2 Chr 31:1
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    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 34:3-8
    6 verses
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    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.

    8In the eighteenth year of his reign, he continued his policy of purifying the land and the temple. He sent Shaphan son of Azaliah, Maaseiah the city official, and Joah son of Joahaz the secretary to repair the temple of the LORD his God.

  • 2 Chr 20:30
    74%

    30Jehoshaphat’s kingdom enjoyed peace; his God made him secure on every side.

  • 2 Kgs 23:13-15
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    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 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 Kgs 18:4-5
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    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.

    5He trusted in the LORD God of Israel; in this regard there was none like him among the kings of Judah either before or after.

  • 2 Kgs 23:19
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    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 Kgs 14:4-5
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    4But the high places were not eliminated; the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense on the high places.

    5When he had secured control of the kingdom, he executed the servants who had assassinated his father.

  • 2 Kgs 15:35
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    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.

  • 2 Chr 32:12
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    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 15:12
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    12He removed the male cultic prostitutes from the land and got rid of all the disgusting idols his ancestors had made.

  • 2 Chr 34:33
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    33Josiah removed all the detestable idols from all the areas belonging to the Israelites and encouraged all who were in Israel to worship the LORD their God. Throughout the rest of his reign they did not turn aside from following the LORD God of their ancestors.

  • 2 Kgs 23:4-6
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    4The king ordered Hilkiah the high priest, the high-ranking priests, and the guards to bring out of the LORD’s temple all the items that were used in the worship of Baal, Asherah, and all the stars of the sky. The king burned them outside of Jerusalem in the terraces of Kidron, and carried their ashes to Bethel.

    5He eliminated the pagan priests whom the kings of Judah had appointed to offer sacrifices on the high places in the cities of Judah and in the area right around Jerusalem.(They offered sacrifices to Baal, the sun god, the moon god, the constellations, and all the stars in the sky.)

    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.

  • 2 Kgs 23:24
    69%

    24Josiah also got rid of the ritual pits used to conjure up spirits, the magicians, personal idols, disgusting images, and all the detestable idols that had appeared in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem. In this way he carried out the terms of the law recorded on the scroll that Hilkiah the priest had discovered in the LORD’s temple.

  • 2 Chr 15:8
    69%

    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.

  • 2 Chr 19:3
    68%

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

  • 2 Chr 17:10
    68%

    10The LORD put fear into all the kingdoms surrounding Judah; they did not make war with Jehoshaphat.

  • 2 Kgs 23:8
    68%

    8He brought all the priests from the cities of Judah and ruined the high places where the priests had offered sacrifices, from Geba to Beer Sheba. He tore down the high place of the goat idols situated at the entrance of the gate of Joshua, the city official, on the left side of the city gate.

  • 1 Kgs 14:26
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    26He took away the treasures of the LORD’s temple and of the royal palace; he took everything, including all the golden shields that Solomon had made.

  • Nah 1:15
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    15Proclamation of the Deliverance of Judah(2:1) Look! A herald is running on the mountains! A messenger is proclaiming deliverance:“Celebrate your sacred festivals, O Judah! Fulfill your sacred vows to praise God! For never again will the wicked Assyrians invade you, they have been completely destroyed.”

  • 2 Kgs 24:13
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    13Nebuchadnezzar took from there all the riches in the treasuries of the LORD’s temple and of the royal palace. He removed all the gold items which King Solomon of Israel had made for the LORD’s temple, just as the LORD had warned.

  • 2 Chr 15:17
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    17The high places were not eliminated from Israel, yet Asa was wholeheartedly devoted to the LORD throughout his lifetime.

  • 2 Chr 12:4
    68%

    4He captured the fortified cities of Judah and marched against Jerusalem.

  • Mic 5:14
    68%

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

  • 2 Chr 30:14
    68%

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

  • 2 Chr 28:25
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    25In every city throughout Judah he set up high places to offer sacrifices to other gods. He angered the LORD God of his ancestors.

  • 1 Kgs 22:44
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    44(22:45) Jehoshaphat was also at peace with the king of Israel.

  • 1 Kgs 15:14
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    14The high places were not eliminated, yet Asa was wholeheartedly devoted to the LORD throughout his lifetime.

  • Num 33:52
    67%

    52you must drive out all the inhabitants of the land before you. Destroy all their carved images, all their molten images, and demolish their high places.

  • 2 Chr 20:33
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    33However, the high places were not eliminated; the people were still not devoted to the God of their ancestors.

  • 2 Kgs 24:3
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    3Just as the LORD had announced, he rejected Judah because of all the sins which Manasseh had committed.

  • 2 Chr 19:5
    67%

    5He appointed judges throughout the land and in each of the fortified cities of Judah.