2 Chronicles 15:16

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King 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.

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  • 1 Kgs 15:13-24 : 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. 15 He brought the holy items that he and his father had made into the LORD’s temple, including the silver, gold, and other articles. 16 Now Asa and King Baasha of Israel were continually at war with each other. 17 King Baasha of Israel attacked Judah and established Ramah as a military outpost to prevent anyone from leaving or entering the land of King Asa of Judah. 18 Asa took all the silver and gold that was left in the treasuries of the LORD’s temple and of the royal palace and handed it to his servants. He then told them to deliver it to Ben Hadad son of Tabrimmon, the son of Hezion, king of Syria, ruler in Damascus, along with this message: 19 “I want to make a treaty with you, like the one our fathers made. See, I have sent you silver and gold as a present. Break your treaty with King Baasha of Israel, so he will retreat from my land.” 20 Ben Hadad accepted King Asa’s offer and ordered his army commanders to attack the cities of Israel. They conquered Ijon, Dan, Abel Beth Maacah, and all the territory of Naphtali, including the region of Kinnereth. 21 When Baasha heard the news, he stopped fortifying Ramah and settled down in Tirzah. 22 King Asa ordered all the men of Judah(no exemptions were granted) to carry away the stones and wood that Baasha had used to build Ramah. King Asa used the materials to build up Geba(in Benjamin) and Mizpah. 23 The rest of the events of Asa’s reign, including all his successes and accomplishments, as well as a record of the cities he built, are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Judah. Yet when he was very old he developed a foot disease. 24 Asa passed away and was buried with his ancestors in the city of his ancestor David. His son Jehoshaphat replaced him as king.
  • 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.
  • 2 Kgs 23:15 : 15 He 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.
  • Exod 34:13 : 13 Rather you must destroy their altars, smash their images, and cut down their Asherah poles.
  • 1 Kgs 15:2 : 2 He ruled for three years in Jerusalem. His mother was Maacah, the daughter of Abishalom.
  • 1 Kgs 15:10 : 10 He ruled for forty-one years in Jerusalem. His grandmother was Maacah daughter of Abishalom.
  • Exod 32:20 : 20 He took the calf they had made and burned it in the fire, ground it to powder, poured it out on the water, and made the Israelites drink it.
  • Exod 32:27-28 : 27 and he said to them,“This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, has said‘Each man fasten his sword on his side, and go back and forth from entrance to entrance throughout the camp, and each one kill his brother, his friend, and his neighbor.’” 28 The Levites did what Moses ordered, and that day about three thousand men of the people died.
  • 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 7:5 : 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.
  • Deut 7:25-26 : 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. 26 You must not bring any abhorrent thing into your house and thereby become an object of divine wrath along with it. You must absolutely detest and abhor it, for it is an object of divine wrath.
  • Deut 9:21 : 21 As for your sinful thing that you had made, the calf, I took it, melted it down, ground it up until it was as fine as dust, and tossed the dust into the stream that flows down the mountain.
  • Deut 13:6-8 : 6 False Prophets in the Family Suppose your own full brother, your son, your daughter, your beloved wife, or your closest friend should seduce you secretly and encourage you to go and serve other gods that neither you nor your ancestors have previously known, 7 the gods of the surrounding people(whether near you or far from you, from one end of the earth to the other). 8 You must not give in to him or even listen to him; do not feel sympathy for him or spare him or cover up for him.
  • Deut 33:9 : 9 He said to his father and mother,“I have not seen him,” and he did not acknowledge his own brothers or know his own children, for they kept your word, and guarded your covenant.
  • 2 Chr 14:2-5 : 2 Asa’s Religious and Military Accomplishments(14:1) Asa did what the LORD his God desired and approved. 3 He removed the pagan altars and the high places, smashed the sacred pillars, and cut down the Asherah poles. 4 He ordered Judah to seek the LORD God of their ancestors and to observe his law and commands. 5 He removed the high places and the incense altars from all the cities of Judah. The kingdom had rest under his rule.
  • 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.
  • Zech 13:3 : 3 Then, if anyone prophesies in spite of this, his father and mother to whom he was born will say to him,‘You cannot live, for you lie in the name of the LORD.’Then his father and mother to whom he was born will run him through with a sword when he prophesies.
  • Mark 3:21 : 21 When his family heard this they went out to restrain him, for they said,“He is out of his mind.”
  • Mark 3:31-35 : 31 Jesus’ True Family Then Jesus’ mother and his brothers came. Standing outside, they sent word to him, to summon him. 32 A crowd was sitting around him and they said to him,“Look, your mother and your brothers are outside looking for you.” 33 He answered them and said,“Who are my mother and my brothers?” 34 And looking at those who were sitting around him in a circle, he said,“Here are my mother and my brothers! 35 For whoever does the will of God is my brother and sister and mother.”
  • 2 Cor 5:16 : 16 So then from now on we acknowledge no one from an outward human point of view. Even though we have known Christ from such a human point of view, now we do not know him in that way any longer.
  • 2 Kgs 23:12 : 12 The 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.

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  • 1 Kgs 15:9-16
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    97%

    9 Asa’s Reign over Judah In the twentieth year of Jeroboam’s reign over Israel, Asa became the king of Judah.

    10 He ruled for forty-one years in Jerusalem. His grandmother was Maacah daughter of Abishalom.

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

    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.

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

    16 Now Asa and King Baasha of Israel were continually at war with each other.

  • 2 Chr 14:2-3
    2 verses
    79%

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

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

  • 2 Chr 15:17-18
    2 verses
    76%

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

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

  • 2 Kgs 23:6
    75%

    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.

  • 2 Kgs 23:12-16
    5 verses
    75%

    12 The 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.

    13 The 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.

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

    15 He 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.

    16 When Josiah turned around, he saw the tombs there on the hill. So he ordered the bones from the tombs to be brought; he burned them on the altar and defiled it, just as in the LORD’s message that was announced by the prophet while Jeroboam stood by the altar during a festival. Then the king turned and saw the grave of the prophet who had foretold this.

  • 2 Chr 15:8
    74%

    8 When 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 34:3-7
    5 verses
    72%

    3 In 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.

    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.

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

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

    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.

  • 1 Kgs 15:22
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    22 King Asa ordered all the men of Judah(no exemptions were granted) to carry away the stones and wood that Baasha had used to build Ramah. King Asa used the materials to build up Geba(in Benjamin) and Mizpah.

  • 2 Chr 33:15
    70%

    15 He 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.

  • 2 Kgs 16:3-4
    2 verses
    70%

    3 He followed in the footsteps of the kings of Israel. He passed his son through the fire, a horrible sin practiced by the nations whom the LORD drove out from before the Israelites.

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

  • 2 Chr 16:6
    70%

    6 King Asa ordered all the men of Judah to carry away the stones and wood that Baasha had used to build Ramah. He used the materials to build up Geba and Mizpah.

  • 2 Chr 31:1
    69%

    1 When 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.

  • 1 Kgs 22:46
    69%

    46 He removed from the land any male cultic prostitutes who had managed to survive the reign of his father Asa.

  • 2 Chr 30:14
    69%

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

  • Judg 6:30
    69%

    30 The 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.”

  • 2 Chr 17:6
    68%

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

  • Deut 7:5
    68%

    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.

  • 2 Chr 16:10
    68%

    10 Asa was so angry at the prophet, he put him in jail. Asa also oppressed some of the people at that time.

  • 1 Kgs 11:5
    68%

    5 Solomon worshiped the Sidonian goddess Astarte and the detestable Ammonite god Milcom.

  • 2 Kgs 18:4
    67%

    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 15:4
    67%

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

  • 2 Chr 15:15
    67%

    15 All Judah was happy about the oath, because they made the vow with their whole heart. They willingly sought the LORD and he responded to them. He made them secure on every side.

  • 2 Kgs 16:17
    67%

    17 King Ahaz took off the frames of the movable stands, and removed the basins from them. He took“The Sea” down from the bronze bulls that supported it and put it on the stone pavement.

  • 1 Kgs 15:2
    67%

    2 He ruled for three years in Jerusalem. His mother was Maacah, the daughter of Abishalom.

  • 2 Chr 28:2-3
    2 verses
    67%

    2 He followed in the footsteps of the kings of Israel; he also made images of the Baals.

    3 He offered sacrifices in the Valley of Ben Hinnom and passed his sons through the fire, a horrible sin practiced by the nations whom the LORD drove out before the Israelites.

  • Isa 27:9
    67%

    9 So 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.

  • 2 Kgs 21:7
    67%

    7 He put an idol of Asherah he had made in the temple, about which the LORD had said to David and to his son Solomon,“This temple in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, will be my permanent home.

  • 2 Chr 19:3
    67%

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

  • 1 Kgs 15:24
    66%

    24 Asa passed away and was buried with his ancestors in the city of his ancestor David. His son Jehoshaphat replaced him as king.

  • 2 Kgs 21:3
    66%

    3 He 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 21:12
    66%

    12 Jehoram received this letter from Elijah the prophet:“This is what the LORD God of your ancestor David says:‘You have not followed in the footsteps of your father Jehoshaphat and of King Asa of Judah,

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