Add parallel Print Page Options

He took away the foreign altars and the high places, broke down the pillars, cut down the sacred poles,[a](A)

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. 14.3 Or Asherahs

He removed the foreign altars(A) and the high places, smashed the sacred stones(B) and cut down the Asherah poles.[a](C)

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 14:3 That is, wooden symbols of the goddess Asherah; here and elsewhere in 2 Chronicles

For he took away the altars of the strange gods, and the high places, and brake down the images, and cut down the groves:

Read full chapter

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)

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. 7.5 Or Asherahs

This is what you are to do to them: Break down their altars, smash their sacred stones, cut down their Asherah poles[a](A) and burn their idols in the fire.(B)

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 7:5 That is, wooden symbols of the goddess Asherah; here and elsewhere in Deuteronomy

But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire.

Read full chapter

13 Rather, you shall tear down their altars, break their pillars, and cut down their sacred poles,[a](A)

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. 34.13 Or Asherahs

13 Break down their altars, smash their sacred stones and cut down their Asherah poles.[a](A)

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Exodus 34:13 That is, wooden symbols of the goddess Asherah

13 But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves:

Read full chapter

14 He broke the pillars in pieces, cut down the sacred poles,[a] and covered the sites with human bones.(A)

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. 23.14 Or Asherahs

14 Josiah smashed(A) the sacred stones and cut down the Asherah poles and covered the sites with human bones.(B)

Read full chapter

14 And he brake in pieces the images, and cut down the groves, and filled their places with the bones of men.

Read full chapter

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)

Read full chapter

12 He expelled the male shrine prostitutes(A) from the land and got rid of all the idols(B) his ancestors had made. 13 He even deposed his grandmother Maakah(C) from her position as queen mother,(D) because she had made a repulsive image for the worship of Asherah. Asa cut it down(E) and burned it in the Kidron Valley. 14 Although he did not remove(F) the high places, Asa’s heart was fully committed(G) to the Lord all his life.

Read full chapter

12 And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.

13 And also Maachah his mother, even her he removed from being queen, because she had made an idol in a grove; and Asa destroyed her idol, and burnt it by the brook Kidron.

14 But the high places were not removed: nevertheless Asa's heart was perfect with the Lord all his days.

Read full chapter

17 But the high places were not taken out of Israel. Nevertheless, the heart of Asa was true all his days.

Read full chapter

17 Although he did not remove the high places from Israel, Asa’s heart was fully committed to the Lord all his life.

Read full chapter

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

Read full chapter

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)

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. 34.4 Or Asherahs

Under his direction the altars of the Baals were torn down; he cut to pieces the incense altars that were above them, and smashed the Asherah poles(A) and the idols. These he broke to pieces and scattered over the graves of those who had sacrificed to them.(B)

Read full chapter

And they brake down the altars of Baalim in his presence; and the images, that were on high above them, he cut down; and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images, he brake in pieces, and made dust of them, and strowed it upon the graves of them that had sacrificed unto them.

Read full chapter

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)

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. 23.6 Heb lacks image of

He took the Asherah pole from the temple of the Lord to the Kidron Valley(A) outside Jerusalem and burned it there. He ground it to powder(B) and scattered the dust over the graves(C) of the common people.(D)

Read full chapter

And he brought out the grove from the house of the Lord, without Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and stamped it small to powder, and cast the powder thereof upon the graves of the children of the people.

Read full chapter

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)

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. 18.4 Or Asherah

He removed(A) the high places,(B) smashed the sacred stones(C) and cut down the Asherah poles. He broke into pieces the bronze snake(D) Moses had made, for up to that time the Israelites had been burning incense to it. (It was called Nehushtan.[a])

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 18:4 Nehushtan sounds like the Hebrew for both bronze and snake.

He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan.

Read full chapter