²² But if you say to me, ‘We trust in the Lord our God,’ is it not He ^(A)whose ^[a]high places and whose altars Hezekiah has taken away, and said to Judah and Jerusalem, ‘You shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem’?” ’

The Reforms of Hezekiah^(A)

31 Now when all this was finished, all Israel who were present went out to the cities of Judah and ^(B)broke the sacred pillars in pieces, cut down the wooden images, and threw down the ^[a]high places and the altars—from all Judah, Benjamin, Ephraim, and Manasseh—until they had utterly destroyed them all. Then all the children of Israel returned to their own cities, every man to his possession.

¹⁵ But he who is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is rightly judged by no one.

^43 (A)He trusted in God; let Him deliver Him now if He will have Him; for He said, ‘I am the Son of God.’ ”

¹⁵ Now if you are ready at the time you hear the sound of the horn, flute, harp, lyre, and psaltery, in symphony with all kinds of music, and you fall down and worship the image which I have made, ^(A)good! But if you do not worship, you shall be cast immediately into the midst of a burning fiery furnace. ^(B)And who is the god who will deliver you from my hands?”

⁷ “But if you say to me, ‘We trust in the Lord our God,’ is it not He whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has taken away, and said to Judah and Jerusalem, ‘You shall worship before this altar’?” ’

^12 (A)Has not the same Hezekiah taken away His high places and His altars, and commanded Judah and Jerusalem, saying, “You shall worship before one altar and burn incense on ^(B)it”?

^4 (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. ⁵ He ^(C)trusted in the Lord God of Israel, ^(D)so that after him was none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor who were before him.