2 Chronicles 14:3

World English Bible (2000)

for he took away the foreign altars, and the high places, and broke down the pillars, and cut down the Asherim,

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  • Deut 7:5 : 5 But you shall deal with them like this: you shall break down their altars, and dash their pillars in pieces, and cut down their Asherim, and burn their engraved images with fire.
  • Exod 34:13 : 13 but you shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and you shall cut down their Asherim;
  • 1 Kgs 15:12-14 : 12 He put away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made. 13 Also Maacah his mother he removed from being queen, because she had made an abominable image for an Asherah; and Asa cut down her image, and burnt it at the brook Kidron. 14 But the high places were not taken away: nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect with Yahweh all his days.
  • 2 Kgs 23:14 : 14 He broke in pieces the pillars, and cut down the Asherim, and filled their places with the bones of men.
  • 2 Chr 15:17 : 17 But the high places were not taken away out of Israel: nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect all his days.
  • 2 Chr 34:4 : 4 They broke down the altars of the Baals in his presence; and the incense altars that were on high above them he cut down; and the Asherim, and the engraved images, and the molten images, he broke in pieces, and made dust of them, and strewed it on the graves [of those] who had sacrificed to them.
  • 2 Kgs 18:4 : 4 He removed the high places, and broke the pillars, and cut down the Asherah: and he broke in pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made; for to those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it; and he called it Nehushtan.
  • 2 Kgs 23:6 : 6 He brought out the Asherah from the house of Yahweh, outside of Jerusalem, to the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and beat it to dust, and cast its dust on the graves of the common people.
  • Lev 26:30 : 30 I will destroy your high places, and cut down your incense altars, and cast your dead bodies upon the bodies of your idols; and my soul will abhor you.
  • Deut 7:25 : 25 You shall burn the engraved images of their gods with fire. You shall not covet the silver or the gold that is on them, nor take it for yourself, lest you be snared in it; for it is an abomination to Yahweh your God.
  • Judg 6:25-28 : 25 It happened the same night, that Yahweh said to him, "Take your father's bull, even the second bull seven years old, and throw down the altar of Baal that your father has, and cut down the Asherah that is by it; 26 and build an altar to Yahweh your God on the top of this stronghold, in an orderly way, and take the second bull, and offer a burnt offering with the wood of the Asherah which you shall cut down." 27 Then Gideon took ten men of his servants, and did as Yahweh had spoken to him: and it happened, because he feared his father's household and the men of the city, so that he could not do it by day, that he did it by night. 28 When the men of the city arose early in the morning, behold, the altar of Baal was broken down, and the Asherah was cut down that was by it, and the second bull was offered on the altar that was built.
  • 1 Kgs 11:7-8 : 7 Then did Solomon build a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, on the mountain that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech the abomination of the children of Ammon. 8 So did he for all his foreign wives, who burnt incense and sacrificed to their gods.
  • 1 Kgs 14:22-24 : 22 Judah did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they committed, above all that their fathers had done. 23 For they also built them high places, and pillars, and Asherim, on every high hill, and under every green tree; 24 and there were also sodomites in the land: they did according to all the abominations of the nations which Yahweh drove out before the children of Israel.

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  • 2 Kgs 23:12-15
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    12 The altars that were on the roof of the upper room of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of Yahweh, did the king break down, and beat [them] down from there, and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron.

    13 The high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mountain of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon, did the king defile.

    14 He broke in pieces the pillars, and cut down the Asherim, and filled their places with the bones of men.

    15 Moreover the altar that was at Bethel, and the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had made, even that altar and the high place he broke down; and he burned the high place and beat it to dust, and burned the Asherah.

  • 2 Chr 34:3-7
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    3 For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father; and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the Asherim, and the engraved images, and the molten images.

    4 They broke down the altars of the Baals in his presence; and the incense altars that were on high above them he cut down; and the Asherim, and the engraved images, and the molten images, he broke in pieces, and made dust of them, and strewed it on the graves [of those] who had sacrificed to them.

    5 He burnt the bones of the priests on their altars, and purged Judah and Jerusalem.

    6 [So did he] in the cities of Manasseh and Ephraim and Simeon, even to Naphtali, around in their ruins.

    7 He broke down the altars, and beat the Asherim and the engraved images into powder, and cut down all the incense altars throughout all the land of Israel, and returned to Jerusalem.

  • 2 Chr 33:15
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    15 He took away the foreign gods, and the idol out of the house of Yahweh, and all the altars that he had built in the mountain of the house of Yahweh, and in Jerusalem, and cast them out of the city.

  • 1 Kgs 15:11-15
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    81%

    11 Asa did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, as did David his father.

    12 He put away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.

    13 Also Maacah his mother he removed from being queen, because she had made an abominable image for an Asherah; and Asa cut down her image, and burnt it at the brook Kidron.

    14 But the high places were not taken away: nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect with Yahweh all his days.

    15 He brought into the house of Yahweh the things that his father had dedicated, and the things that himself had dedicated, silver, and gold, and vessels.

  • Exod 34:13
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    13 but you shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and you shall cut down their Asherim;

  • 2 Chr 15:16-18
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    16 Also Maacah, the mother of Asa the king, he removed from being queen, because she had made an abominable image for an Asherah; and Asa cut down her image, and made dust of it, and burnt it at the brook Kidron.

    17 But the high places were not taken away out of Israel: nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect all his days.

    18 He brought into the house of God the things that his father had dedicated, and that he himself had dedicated, silver, and gold, and vessels.

  • 2 Chr 31:1
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    1 Now when all this was finished, all Israel who were present went out to the cities of Judah, and broke in pieces the pillars, and cut down the Asherim, and broke down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, in Ephraim also and Manasseh, until they had destroyed them all. Then all the children of Israel returned, every man to his possession, into their own cities.

  • 2 Chr 17:6
    79%

    6 His heart was lifted up in the ways of Yahweh: and furthermore he took away the high places and the Asherim out of Judah.

  • 2 Chr 15:8
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    8 When Asa heard these words, and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he took courage, and put away the abominations out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the cities which he had taken from the hill country of Ephraim; and he renewed the altar of Yahweh, that was before the porch of Yahweh.

  • Deut 12:3
    78%

    3 and you shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and burn their Asherim with fire; and you shall cut down the engraved images of their gods; and you shall destroy their name out of that place.

  • 2 Chr 14:2
    77%

    2 Asa did that which was good and right in the eyes of Yahweh his God:

  • 2 Chr 14:4-5
    2 verses
    77%

    4 and commanded Judah to seek Yahweh, the God of their fathers, and to do the law and the commandment.

    5 Also he took away out of all the cities of Judah the high places and the sun images: and the kingdom was quiet before him.

  • Deut 7:5
    77%

    5 But you shall deal with them like this: you shall break down their altars, and dash their pillars in pieces, and cut down their Asherim, and burn their engraved images with fire.

  • 2 Kgs 18:4
    77%

    4 He removed the high places, and broke the pillars, and cut down the Asherah: and he broke in pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made; for to those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it; and he called it Nehushtan.

  • 2 Kgs 23:6-7
    2 verses
    76%

    6 He brought out the Asherah from the house of Yahweh, outside of Jerusalem, to the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and beat it to dust, and cast its dust on the graves of the common people.

    7 He broke down the houses of the sodomites, that were in the house of Yahweh, where the women wove hangings for the Asherah.

  • 2 Chr 19:3
    76%

    3 Nevertheless there are good things found in you, in that you have put away the Asheroth out of the land, and have set your heart to seek God."

  • 2 Kgs 21:3
    75%

    3 For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, and made an Asherah, as did Ahab king of Israel, and worshiped all the army of the sky, and served them.

  • 2 Chr 33:3
    74%

    3 For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down; and he reared up altars for the Baals, and made Asheroth, and worshiped all the army of the sky, and served them.

  • 2 Chr 32:12
    73%

    12 Hasn't the same Hezekiah taken away his high places and his altars, and commanded Judah and Jerusalem, saying, 'You shall worship before one altar, and on it you shall burn incense?'

  • 1 Kgs 14:23
    73%

    23 For they also built them high places, and pillars, and Asherim, on every high hill, and under every green tree;

  • Isa 27:9
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    9 Therefore, by this the iniquity of Jacob will be forgiven, and this is all the fruit of taking away his sin: that he makes all the stones of the altar as chalk stones that are beaten in pieces, so that the Asherim and the incense altars shall rise no more.

  • Judg 6:30
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    30 Then the men of the city said to Joash, "Bring out your son, that he may die, because he has broken down the altar of Baal, and because he has cut down the Asherah that was by it."

  • Mic 5:13-14
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    73%

    13 I will cut off your engraved images and your pillars out of your midst; and you shall no more worship the work of your hands.

    14 I will uproot your Asherim out of your midst; and I will destroy your cities.

  • 2 Kgs 14:4
    72%

    4 However the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.

  • 2 Kgs 15:4
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    4 However the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.

  • 2 Chr 28:24
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    24 Ahaz gathered together the vessels of the house of God, and cut in pieces the vessels of the house of God, and shut up the doors of the house of Yahweh; and he made him altars in every corner of Jerusalem.

  • 2 Kgs 23:19
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    19 All the houses also of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke [Yahweh] to anger, Josiah took away, and did to them according to all the acts that he had done in Bethel.

  • 2 Chr 30:14
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    14 They arose and took away the altars that were in Jerusalem, and all the altars for incense took they away, and cast them into the brook Kidron.

  • 2 Kgs 17:10
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    10 and they set them up pillars and Asherim on every high hill, and under every green tree;

  • 2 Kgs 15:35
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    35 However the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burned incense in the high places. He built the upper gate of the house of Yahweh.

  • 1 Kgs 22:43
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    43 He walked in all the way of Asa his father; He didn't turn aside from it, doing that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh: however the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.

  • 2 Chr 28:4
    71%

    4 He sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.

  • Judg 6:26
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    26 and build an altar to Yahweh your God on the top of this stronghold, in an orderly way, and take the second bull, and offer a burnt offering with the wood of the Asherah which you shall cut down."

  • Hos 10:2
    71%

    2 Their heart is divided. Now they will be found guilty. He will demolish their altars. He will destroy their sacred stones.