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and turneth aside the altars of the stranger, and the high places, and breaketh the standing-pillars, and cutteth down the shrines,

and saith to Judah to seek Jehovah, God of their fathers, and to do the law and the command;

and he turneth aside out of all cities of Judah the high places and the images, and the kingdom is quiet before him.

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He removed the foreign altars(A) and the high places, smashed the sacred stones(B) and cut down the Asherah poles.[a](C) He commanded Judah to seek the Lord,(D) the God of their ancestors, and to obey his laws and commands. He removed the high places(E) and incense altars(F) in every town in Judah, and the kingdom was at peace under him.

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Footnotes

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