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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2 Kings 23:20
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20 And (A)he sacrificed all the priests of the high places who were there, on the altars, (B)and burned human bones on them. Then he returned to Jerusalem.
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Isaiah 27:9
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9 Therefore by this (A)the guilt of Jacob will be atoned for,
and this will be the full fruit of the removal of his sin:[a]
(B)when he makes all the stones of the altars
like chalkstones crushed to pieces,
no (C)Asherim or incense altars will remain standing.
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- Isaiah 27:9 Septuagint and this is the blessing when I take away his sin
Ezekiel 6:13
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Ezekiel 6:3-6
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3 and say, (A)You mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord God! Thus says the Lord God to (B)the mountains and (C)the hills, to (D)the ravines and the valleys: Behold, I, even I, will bring a sword upon you, (E)and I will destroy your high places. 4 (F)Your altars shall become desolate, and your (G)incense altars shall be broken, and I will cast down your slain before your idols. 5 (H)And I will lay the dead bodies of the people of Israel before their idols, (I)and I will scatter your bones around your altars. 6 Wherever you dwell, (J)the cities shall be waste and (K)the high places ruined, so that your altars will be waste and ruined,[a] your idols broken and destroyed, your (L)incense altars cut down, and your works wiped out.
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- Ezekiel 6:6 Or and punished
Jeremiah 14:19
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19 (A)Have you utterly rejected Judah?
Does your soul loathe Zion?
Why have you struck us down
(B)so that there is no healing for us?
(C)We looked for peace, but no good came;
(D)for a time of healing, but behold, terror.
Jeremiah 8:1-3
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8 “At that time, declares the Lord, the bones of the kings of Judah, the bones of its officials, the bones of the priests, the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem shall be brought out of their tombs. 2 And they shall be spread (A)before the sun and the moon and all the host of heaven, which they have loved and served, which they have gone after, and which they have sought and worshiped. (B)And they shall not be gathered or buried. (C)They shall be as dung on the surface of the ground. 3 (D)Death shall be preferred to life by all the remnant that remains of this evil family (E)in all the places where I have driven them, declares the Lord of hosts.
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Psalm 89:38
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2 Chronicles 34:3-7
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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. 4 And they chopped down the altars of the Baals in his presence, and he cut down the (B)incense altars that stood above them. And he broke in pieces the (C)Asherim and the carved and the metal images, and he made dust of them and (D)scattered it over the graves of those who had sacrificed to them. 5 (E)He also burned the bones of the priests on their altars and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem. 6 And in the (F)cities of Manasseh, Ephraim, and Simeon, and as far as Naphtali, in their ruins[a] all around, 7 he broke down the altars and beat the (G)Asherim and the images (H)into powder and cut down all the incense altars throughout all the land of Israel. Then he returned to Jerusalem.
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- 2 Chronicles 34:6 The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain
2 Chronicles 31:1
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Hezekiah Organizes the Priests
31 Now when all this was finished, all Israel who were present went out to the cities of Judah and (A)broke in pieces the (B)pillars and cut down (C)the Asherim and broke down the high places and the altars throughout all Judah and Benjamin, and in Ephraim and Manasseh, until they had destroyed them all. Then all the people of Israel returned to their cities, every man to his possession.
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2 Chronicles 23:17
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17 Then all the people went to the house of Baal and tore it down; his altars and his images they broke in pieces, (A)and they killed Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars.
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2 Chronicles 14:3-5
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3 He took away the foreign altars (A)and the high places and broke down (B)the pillars and cut down the (C)Asherim 4 and commanded Judah to seek the Lord, the God of their fathers, and to keep the law and the commandment. 5 He also took out of all the cities of Judah (D)the high places and the (E)incense altars. And the kingdom had rest under him.
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2 Kings 23:16
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16 And as Josiah turned, he saw the tombs there on the mount. And he sent and took the bones out of the tombs and burned them on the altar and defiled it, (A)according to the word of the Lord that the man of God proclaimed, who had predicted these things.
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2 Kings 23:8
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8 And he brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests had made offerings, from (A)Geba to Beersheba. And he broke down the high places of the gates that were at the entrance of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which were on one's left at the gate of the city.
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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 26:15
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15 if you spurn my statutes, and if your soul abhors my rules, so that you will not do all my commandments, but (A)break my covenant,
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Leviticus 26:11
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11 (A)I will make my dwelling[a] among you, and my soul shall not abhor you.
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- Leviticus 26:11 Hebrew tabernacle
Leviticus 20:23
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23 (A)And you shall not walk in the customs of the nation that I am driving out before you, for they did all these things, and therefore I detested them.
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