2 Chronicles 14:3 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

More versions

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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³ And broke the statues, and cut down the groves.

2 Chronicles 14:3 Cross References

Genesis 18:19

For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of the LORD, to do justice and judgement; to the end that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.

2 Kings 18:4

He removed the high places, and brake the pillars, and cut down the Asherah: And he brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made; for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it; and he called it Nehushtan.

2 Kings 23:14

And he brake in pieces the pillars, and cut down the Asherim, and filled their places with the bones of men.

2 Kings 23:6

And he brought out the Asherah from the house of the LORD, without Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and stamped it small to powder, and cast the powder thereof upon the graves of the common people.

2 Chronicles 14:2

And Asa did that which was good and right in the eyes of the LORD his God:

2 Chronicles 14:4

and commanded Judah to seek the LORD, the God of their fathers, and to do the law and the commandment.

2 Chronicles 15:17

But the high places were not taken away out of Israel: nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect all his days.

2 Chronicles 33:16

And he built up the altar of the LORD, and offered thereon sacrifices of peace offerings and of thanksgiving, and commanded Judah to serve the LORD, the God of Israel.

2 Chronicles 34:4

And they brake down the altars of the Baalim in his presence; and the sun-images, that were on high above them, he hewed down; and the Asherim, and the graven images, and the molten images, he brake in pieces, and made dust of them, and strowed it upon the graves of them that had sacrificed unto them.

Exodus 34:13

but ye shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and ye shall cut down their Asherim:

Leviticus 26:30

And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your sun-images, and cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols; and my soul shall abhor you.

Deuteronomy 7:25

The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire: thou shalt not covet the silver or the gold that is on them, nor take it unto thee, lest thou be snared therein: for it is an abomination to the LORD thy God:

Deuteronomy 7:5

But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and hew down their Asherim, and burn their graven images with fire.