for he removed the altars of the foreign gods and (A)the [a]high places, and (B)broke down the sacred pillars (C)and cut down the wooden images.

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  1. 2 Chronicles 14:3 Places for pagan worship

But thus you shall deal with them: you shall (A)destroy their altars, and break down their sacred pillars, and cut down their [a]wooden images, and burn their carved images with fire.

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  1. Deuteronomy 7:5 Heb. Asherim, Canaanite deities

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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13 But you shall (A)destroy their altars, break their sacred pillars, and (B)cut down their wooden images

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12 (A)And he banished the [a]perverted persons from the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made. 13 Also he removed (B)Maachah his grandmother from being queen mother, because she had made an obscene image of [b]Asherah. And Asa cut down her obscene image and (C)burned it by the Brook Kidron. 14 (D)But the [c]high places were not removed. Nevertheless Asa’s (E)heart was loyal to the Lord all his days.

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  1. 1 Kings 15:12 Heb. qedeshim, those practicing sodomy and prostitution in religious rituals
  2. 1 Kings 15:13 A Canaanite goddess
  3. 1 Kings 15:14 Places for pagan worship

17 But (A)the [a]high places were not removed from Israel. Nevertheless the heart of Asa was loyal all his days.

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  1. 2 Chronicles 15:17 Places for pagan worship

(A)They broke down the altars of the Baals in his presence, and the incense altars which were above them he cut down; and the wooden images, the carved images, and the molded images he broke in pieces, and made dust of them (B)and scattered it on the graves of those who had sacrificed to them.

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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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  1. 2 Kings 23:6 Heb. Asherah, a Canaanite goddess

(A)He removed the [a]high places and broke the sacred pillars, cut down the [b]wooden image and broke in pieces the (B)bronze serpent that Moses had made; for until those days the children of Israel burned incense to it, and called it [c]Nehushtan.

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  1. 2 Kings 18:4 Places for pagan worship
  2. 2 Kings 18:4 Heb. Asherah, a Canaanite goddess
  3. 2 Kings 18:4 Lit. Bronze Thing, also similar to Heb. nahash, serpent

22 (A)Now Judah did evil in the sight of the Lord, and they (B)provoked Him to jealousy with their sins which they committed, more than all that their fathers had done. 23 For they also built for themselves (C)high[a] places, (D)sacred pillars, and (E)wooden images on every high hill and (F)under every green tree. 24 (G)And there were also [b]perverted persons in the land. They did according to all the (H)abominations of the nations which the Lord had cast out before the children of (I)Israel.

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  1. 1 Kings 14:23 Places for pagan worship
  2. 1 Kings 14:24 Heb. qadesh, one practicing sodomy and prostitution in religious rituals

(A)Then Solomon built a [a]high place for (B)Chemosh the abomination of Moab, on (C)the hill that is east of Jerusalem, and for Molech the abomination of the people of Ammon. And he did likewise for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods.

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  1. 1 Kings 11:7 A place for pagan worship

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; 26 and build an altar to the Lord your God on top of this [b]rock in the proper arrangement, and take the second bull and offer a burnt sacrifice with the wood of the image which you shall cut down.” 27 So Gideon took ten men from among his servants and did as the Lord had said to him. But because he feared his father’s household and the men of the city too much to do it by day, he did it by night.

Gideon Destroys the Altar of Baal

28 And when the men of the city arose early in the morning, there was the altar of Baal, torn down; and the wooden image that was beside it was cut down, and the second bull was being offered on the altar which had been built.

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  1. Judges 6:25 Heb. Asherah, a Canaanite goddess
  2. Judges 6:26 stronghold

25 You shall burn the carved images of their gods with fire; you shall not (A)covet[a] the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it for yourselves, lest you be snared by it; for it is an abomination to the Lord your God.

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  1. Deuteronomy 7:25 desire

30 (A)I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars, and cast your carcasses on the lifeless forms of your idols;

and My soul shall abhor you.

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