Judges 3:7
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Othniel
7 So the children of Israel did (A)evil in the sight of the Lord. They (B)forgot the Lord their God, and served the Baals and [a]Asherahs.
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- Judges 3:7 Name or symbol for Canaanite goddesses
Exodus 34:13
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13 But you shall (A)destroy their altars, break their sacred pillars, and (B)cut down their wooden images
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2 Kings 23:6
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6 And he brought out the (A)wooden[a] image from the house of the Lord, to the Brook Kidron outside Jerusalem, burned it at the Brook Kidron and ground it to (B)ashes, and threw its ashes on (C)the graves of the common people.
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- 2 Kings 23:6 Heb. Asherah, a Canaanite goddess
2 Chronicles 33:19
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19 Also his prayer and how God received his entreaty, and all his sin and trespass, and the sites where he built [a]high places and set up wooden images and carved images, before he was humbled, indeed they are written among the sayings of [b]Hozai.
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- 2 Chronicles 33:19 Places for pagan worship
- 2 Chronicles 33:19 LXX the seers
2 Chronicles 33:3
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3 For he rebuilt the [a]high places which Hezekiah his father had (A)broken down; he raised up altars for the Baals, and (B)made wooden images; and he worshiped (C)all [b]the host of heaven and served them.
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- 2 Chronicles 33:3 Places for pagan worship
- 2 Chronicles 33:3 The gods of the Assyrians
2 Chronicles 24:18
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18 Therefore they left the house of the Lord God of their fathers, and served (A)wooden images and idols; and (B)wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem because of their trespass.
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2 Chronicles 15:16
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16 Also he removed (A)Maachah, the [a]mother of Asa the king, from being queen mother, because she had made an obscene image of [b]Asherah; and Asa cut down her obscene image, then crushed and burned it by the Brook Kidron.
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- 2 Chronicles 15:16 Or grandmother
- 2 Chronicles 15:16 A Canaanite deity
2 Kings 23:14
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14 And he (A)broke in pieces the sacred pillars and cut down the wooden images, and filled their places with the bones of men.
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1 Kings 18:19
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19 Now therefore, send and gather all Israel to me on (A)Mount Carmel, the four hundred and fifty prophets of Baal, (B)and the four hundred prophets of [a]Asherah, who [b]eat at Jezebel’s table.”
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- 1 Kings 18:19 A Canaanite goddess
- 1 Kings 18:19 Are provided for by Jezebel
1 Kings 16:33
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33 (A)And Ahab made a [a]wooden image. Ahab (B)did more to provoke the Lord God of Israel to anger than all the kings of Israel who were before him.
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- 1 Kings 16:33 Heb. Asherah, a Canaanite goddess
Judges 6:25
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25 Now it came to pass the same night that the Lord said to him, “Take your father’s young bull, the second bull of seven years old, and (A)tear down the altar of (B)Baal that your father has, and (C)cut down the [a]wooden image that is beside it;
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- Judges 6:25 Heb. Asherah, a Canaanite goddess
Judges 3:12
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Ehud
12 (A)And the children of Israel again did evil in the sight of the Lord. So the Lord strengthened (B)Eglon king of Moab against Israel, because they had done evil in the sight of the Lord.
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Judges 2:11-13
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Israel’s Unfaithfulness
11 Then the children of Israel did (A)evil in the sight of the Lord, and served the Baals; 12 and they (B)forsook the Lord God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt; and they followed (C)other gods from among the gods of the people who were all around them, and they (D)bowed down to them; and they provoked the Lord to anger. 13 They forsook the Lord (E)and served [a]Baal and the [b]Ashtoreths.
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- Judges 2:13 A Canaanite god
- Judges 2:13 Canaanite goddesses
Deuteronomy 16:21
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21 (A)“You shall not plant for yourself any tree, as a [a]wooden image, near the altar which you build for yourself to the Lord your God.
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- Deuteronomy 16:21 Or Asherah
Deuteronomy 4:9
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9 Only take heed to yourself, and diligently (A)keep yourself, lest you (B)forget the things your eyes have seen, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life. And (C)teach them to your children and your grandchildren,
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2 Chronicles 34:7
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7 When he had broken down the altars and the wooden images, had (A)beaten the carved images into powder, and cut down all the incense altars throughout all the land of Israel, he returned to Jerusalem.
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2 Chronicles 34:3
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3 For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was still (A)young, he began to (B)seek the God of his father David; and in the twelfth year he began (C)to purge Judah and Jerusalem (D)of the [a]high places, the wooden images, the carved images, and the molded images.
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- 2 Chronicles 34:3 Places for pagan worship
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