2 Chronicles 14:3 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³ He took away the foreign altars and the high places, broke down the pillars, cut down the sacred poles,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ for he took away the altars of the strange gods, and the high places, and brake down the images, and cut down the groves:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ He took away the foreign altars and high places and broke down the idol pillars or obelisks and cut down the Asherim [symbols of the goddess Asherah]

American Standard Version (1901)

³ for he took away the foreign altars, and the high places, and brake down the pillars, and hewed down the Asherim,

Common English Bible

³ He removed the foreign altars and shrines, smashed the sacred pillars, cut down the sacred poles,

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ And he broke apart the statues, and he cut down the sacred groves.

2 Chronicles 14:3 Cross References

Deuteronomy 7:5

But this is how you must deal with them: break down their altars, smash their pillars, cut down their sacred poles, and burn their idols with fire.

2 Kings 23:14

He broke the pillars in pieces, cut down the sacred poles, and covered the sites with human bones.

Exodus 34:13

Rather, you shall tear down their altars, break their pillars, and cut down their sacred poles,

2 Chronicles 15:17

But the high places were not taken out of Israel. Nevertheless, the heart of Asa was true all his days.

2 Chronicles 34:4

In his presence they pulled down the altars of the Baals; he demolished the incense altars that stood above them. He broke down the sacred poles and the carved and the cast images; he made dust of them and scattered it over the graves of those who had sacrificed to them.

2 Kings 23:6

He brought out the image of Asherah from the house of the Lord, outside Jerusalem, to the Wadi Kidron, burned it at the Wadi Kidron, beat it to dust, and threw the dust of it upon the graves of the common people.

2 Kings 18:4

He removed the high places, broke down the pillars, and cut down the sacred pole. He broke in pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made, for until those days the people of Israel had made offerings to it; it was called Nehushtan.

Deuteronomy 7:25

The images of their gods you shall burn with fire. Do not covet the silver or the gold that is on them and take it for yourself, because you could be ensnared by it, for it is abhorrent to the Lord your God.

Leviticus 26:30

I will destroy your high places and cut down your incense altars; I will heap your carcasses on the carcasses of your idols. I will abhor you.

2 Chronicles 14:2

Asa did what was good and right in the sight of the Lord his God.

2 Chronicles 14:4

and commanded Judah to seek the Lord, the God of their ancestors, and to keep the law and the commandment.

Genesis 18:19

No, for I have chosen him, that he may charge his children and his household after him to keep the way of the Lord by doing righteousness and justice, so that the Lord may bring about for Abraham what he has promised him.”

2 Chronicles 33:16

He also restored the altar of the Lord and offered on it sacrifices of well-being and of thanksgiving, and he commanded Judah to serve the Lord the God of Israel.