2 Chronicles 14:3
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3 He took away the foreign altars and the high places, broke down the pillars, cut down the sacred poles,[a](A)
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Deuteronomy 7:5
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5 But this is how you must deal with them: break down their altars, smash their pillars, cut down their sacred poles,[a] and burn their idols with fire.(A)
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Exodus 34:13
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13 Rather, you shall tear down their altars, break their pillars, and cut down their sacred poles,[a](A)
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2 Kings 23:14
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14 He broke the pillars in pieces, cut down the sacred poles,[a] and covered the sites with human bones.(A)
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1 Kings 15:12-14
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12 He put away the illicit priests out of the land and removed all the idols that his ancestors had made.(A) 13 He also removed his mother Maacah from being queen mother, because she had made an abominable image for Asherah; Asa cut down her image and burned it at the Wadi Kidron.(B) 14 But the high places were not taken away. Nevertheless, the heart of Asa was true to the Lord all his days.(C)
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2 Chronicles 15:17
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17 But the high places were not taken out of Israel. Nevertheless, the heart of Asa was true all his days.
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2 Chronicles 34:4
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4 In his presence they pulled down the altars of the Baals; he demolished the incense altars that stood above them. He broke down the sacred poles[a] and the carved and the cast images; he made dust of them and scattered it over the graves of those who had sacrificed to them.(A)
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2 Kings 23:6
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6 He brought out the image of[a] Asherah from the house of the Lord, outside Jerusalem, to the Wadi Kidron, burned it at the Wadi Kidron, beat it to dust, and threw the dust of it upon the graves of the common people.(A)
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2 Kings 18:4
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4 He removed the high places, broke down the pillars, and cut down the sacred pole.[a] He broke in pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made, for until those days the people of Israel had made offerings to it; it was called Nehushtan.(A)
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1 Kings 14:22-24
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22 Judah did what was evil in the sight of the Lord; they provoked him to jealousy with their sins that they committed, more than all that their ancestors had done.(A) 23 For they also built for themselves high places, pillars, and sacred poles[a] on every high hill and under every green tree;(B) 24 there were also illicit priests in the land. They committed all the abominations of the nations that the Lord had driven out before the people of Israel.(C)
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1 Kings 11:7-8
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7 Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab and for Molech the abomination of the Ammonites on the mountain east of Jerusalem.(A) 8 He did the same for all his foreign wives who offered incense and sacrificed to their gods.
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Judges 6:25-28
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25 That night the Lord said to him, “Take your father’s bull, the second bull seven years old, and pull down the altar of Baal that belongs to your father and cut down the sacred pole[a] that is beside it(A) 26 and build an altar to the Lord your God on the top of the stronghold here, in proper order;[b] then take the second bull and offer it as a burnt offering with the wood of the sacred pole[c] that you cut down.” 27 So Gideon took ten of his servants and did as the Lord had told him, but because he was too afraid of his family and the townspeople to do it by day, he did it by night.
Gideon Destroys the Altar of Baal
28 When the townspeople rose early in the morning, the altar of Baal was broken down, and the sacred pole[d] beside it was cut down, and the second bull was offered on the altar that had been built.(B)
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Deuteronomy 7:25
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25 The images of their gods you shall burn with fire. Do not covet the silver or the gold that is on them and take it for yourself, because you could be ensnared by it, for it is abhorrent to the Lord your God.(A)
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Leviticus 26:30
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30 I will destroy your high places and cut down your incense altars; I will heap your carcasses on the carcasses of your idols. I will abhor you.(A)
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