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2 Chronicles 32:12

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Didn’t Hezekiah himself remove his high places and his altars  and say to Judah and Jerusalem, ‘You must worship before one altar, and you must burn incense on it’?

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When all this was completed, all Israel who had attended went out to the cities of Judah and broke up the sacred pillars, chopped down the Asherah poles, and tore down the high places and altars  throughout Judah and Benjamin, as well as in Ephraim and Manasseh, to the last one.  Then all the Israelites returned to their cities, each to his own possession.


Suppose you say to me, “We rely on the Lord our God.” Isn’t he the one whose high places and altars Hezekiah has removed, saying to Judah and Jerusalem, “You are to worship at this altar”?


He made a bronze altar  nine metres  long, nine metres wide, and four and a half metres  high.


Suppose you say to me, ‘We rely on the Lord our God.’ Isn’t he the one whose high places and altars Hezekiah has removed,  saying to Judah and to Jerusalem, ‘You must worship at this altar in Jerusalem’ ? ”


He removed the high places, shattered the sacred pillars, and cut down the Asherah poles.  He broke into pieces the bronze snake that Moses made,  for until then the Israelites were burning incense to it. It was called Nehushtan.


Solomon also made all the equipment in the Lord’s temple: the gold altar; the gold table that the Bread of the Presence was placed on;


Isn’t Hezekiah misleading you to give you over to death by famine and thirst when he says, ‘The Lord our God will keep us from the grasp of the king of Assyria’?


However, the people still sacrificed at the high places,  but only to the Lord their God.


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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