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2 Chronicles 15:16

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

King Asa  also removed Maacah, his grandmother,  , from being queen mother because she had made an obscene image of Asherah. Asa chopped down her obscene image, then crushed it and burned it in the Kidron Valley.

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He even tore down the altar at Bethel  and the high place  that had been made by Jeroboam son of Nebat, who caused Israel to sin. He burned the high place, crushed it to dust, and burned the Asherah.


He brought out the Asherah pole  from the Lord’s temple to the Kidron Valley outside Jerusalem. He burned it at the Kidron Valley,  beat it to dust,  and threw its dust on the graves of the common people.  ,


and he reigned for forty-one years in Jerusalem. His grandmother’s  name was Maacah  daughter of Abishalom.


and he reigned for three years in Jerusalem.  His mother’s name was Maacah  daughter  of Abishalom.


Instead, you must tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, and chop down their Asherah poles.


From now on, then, we do not know anyone from a worldly perspective.  Even if we have known Christ from a worldly perspective,  yet now we no longer know him in this way.


When his family  heard this, they set out to restrain him, because they said, ‘He’s out of his mind.’


If a man still prophesies, his father and his mother who bore him will say to him, “You cannot remain alive because you have spoken a lie in the name of the Lord.” When he prophesies, his father and his mother who bore him will pierce him through.


He tore down the altars, and he smashed the Asherah poles and the carved images to powder. He chopped down all the shrines throughout the land of Israel and returned to Jerusalem.


The king tore down the altars that the kings of Judah had made on the roof  of Ahaz’s upper chamber.  He also tore down the altars that Manasseh had made  in the two courtyards of the Lord’s temple. Then he smashed them  there and threw their dust into the Kidron Valley.


He said about his father and mother, ‘I do not regard them.’ He disregarded his brothers and didn’t acknowledge his sons, for they kept your word and maintained your covenant.


I took the sinful calf you had made and burned it. I crushed it, thoroughly grinding it to powder as fine as dust, and threw its dust into the stream that came down from the mountain.


Instead, this is what you are to do to them: tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, cut down their Asherah poles,  and burn their carved images.


I will destroy your high places, cut down your shrines,  and heap your lifeless bodies on the lifeless bodies of your idols;  I will reject you.


He took the calf they had made, burned it up, and ground it to powder. He scattered the powder over the surface of the water and forced the Israelites to drink the water.


After  Jesus had said these things, he went out with his disciples across the Kidron Valley, where there was a garden, and he and his disciples went into it.


The high places were not taken away from Israel; nevertheless, Asa was wholeheartedly devoted his entire life.


The priests went to the entrance of the Lord’s temple to cleanse it. They took all the unclean things they found in the Lord’s sanctuary to the courtyard of the Lord’s temple. Then the Levites received them and took them outside to the Kidron Valley.


Then the king commanded the high priest Hilkiah  and the priests of the second rank  and the doorkeepers to bring out of the Lord’s sanctuary all the articles made for Baal, Asherah, and all the stars in the sky.  He burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron and carried their ashes to Bethel.


They proceeded to take away the altars that were in Jerusalem,  and they took away the incense altars and threw them into the Kidron Valley.





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