2 Chronicles 34:3
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3 For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet a boy, he began to seek the God of David his father, and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the (A)Asherim, and the carved and the metal images.
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2 Chronicles 33:22
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22 And he did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, as Manasseh his father had done. Amon sacrificed to all the images (A)that Manasseh his father had made, and served them.
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2 Chronicles 15:2
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2 and he went out to meet Asa and said to him, “Hear me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin: (A)The Lord is with you while you are with him. (B)If you seek him, he will be found by you, (C)but if you forsake him, he will forsake you.
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Proverbs 8:17
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2 Chronicles 33:17
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17 (A)Nevertheless, the people still sacrificed at the high places, but only to the Lord their God.
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2 Timothy 3:15
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15 and how (A)from childhood you have been acquainted with (B)the sacred writings, (C)which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.
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Matthew 6:33
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33 But (A)seek first (B)the kingdom of God and his righteousness, (C)and all these things will be added to you.
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Ecclesiastes 12:1
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Remember Your Creator in Your Youth
12 Remember also your Creator in (A)the days of your youth, before (B)the evil days come and the years draw near of which (C)you will say, “I have no pleasure in them”;
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Psalm 119:9
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Beth
9 How can (A)a young man keep his way pure?
By guarding it according to your word.
2 Chronicles 30:14
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14 They set to work and removed (A)the altars that were in Jerusalem, and all the altars for burning incense they took away (B)and threw into the brook Kidron.
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1 Chronicles 29:1
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Offerings for the Temple
29 And David the king said to all the assembly, “Solomon my son, whom alone God has chosen, is (A)young and inexperienced, and the work is great, for (B)the palace will not be for man but for the Lord God.
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1 Chronicles 28:9
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David's Charge to Solomon
9 “And you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father and serve him with a (A)whole heart and with a willing mind, (B)for the Lord searches all hearts and understands every plan and thought. (C)If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.
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1 Chronicles 22:5
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5 For David said, (A)“Solomon my son is young and inexperienced, and the house that is to be built for the Lord must be exceedingly magnificent, of fame and glory throughout all lands. I will therefore make preparation for it.” So David provided materials in great quantity before his death.
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2 Kings 23:14
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14 And he broke in pieces the (A)pillars and cut down the Asherim and filled their places with the bones of men.
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2 Kings 23:4
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4 And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest and the priests (A)of the second order and the keepers of the threshold to bring out of the temple of the Lord all the vessels made for (B)Baal, for (C)Asherah, and for all the host of heaven. (D)He burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron and carried their ashes to Bethel.
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2 Kings 18:4
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4 (A)He removed the high places and broke the (B)pillars and cut down (C)the Asherah. And he broke in pieces (D)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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- 2 Kings 18:4 Nehushtan sounds like the Hebrew for both bronze and serpent
1 Kings 13:2
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2 (A)And the man cried against the altar by the word of the Lord and said, “O altar, altar, thus says the Lord: ‘Behold, a son shall be born to the house of David, (B)Josiah by name, and he shall sacrifice on you the priests of the high places who make offerings on you, and human bones shall be burned on you.’”
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Leviticus 26:30
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30 And (A)I will destroy your high places and cut down your incense altars and (B)cast your dead bodies upon the dead bodies of your idols, and my soul will abhor you.
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