2 Chronicles 33:3

Modern English Version

And he turned again to build the high places that his father Hezekiah had torn down, and he set up altars to the Baals, and made Asherah poles, and worshipped the starry assembly of heaven and served them.

Cross References

1 Kings 14:23

For they also built high places and images and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.

2 Kings 18:4

He removed the high places, broke down the sacred pillars, cut down the Asherah poles, and crushed the bronze serpent that Moses had made, for until those days the Israelites had made offerings to it. They called it Nehushtan.

2 Kings 21:3

He went back and rebuilt the high places that Hezekiah his father had destroyed. He erected altars for Baal, made an Asherah pole as Ahab king of Israel had done, and worshipped all the host of heaven and served them.

2 Kings 23:11

He removed the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the entry of the house of the Lord, by the hall of Nathan-melech the eunuch, which was in the vestibule. The chariots of the sun he burned with fire.

2 Kings 23:4

The king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the threshold to bring out of the temple of the Lord all the implements that were made for Baal, for Asherah, and for all the host of heaven. Then he burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron and carried their ashes to Bethel.

2 Chronicles 28:24

And Ahaz gathered the vessels from the house of God, and he cut up the vessels. Then he shut the doors of the house of the Lord, and he made altars in every corner of Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 30:14

They went out and removed the altars that were in Jerusalem, and they took away all the incense altars and threw them into the Kidron Valley.

2 Chronicles 31:1

And when this celebration was finished, all of Israel that was present went out to the cities of Judah and smashed the sacred pillars and cut down the Asherah poles and tore down the high places and the altars throughout all Judah and Benjamin, and in Ephraim and Manasseh, until everything was destroyed. Then all Israel returned to their cities, each man to his own possession.

2 Chronicles 32:12

Has not Hezekiah himself taken down this god’s high places and altars by ordering Judah and Jerusalem, ‘You all will bow down at one altar and on it burn sacrifices’?

2 Chronicles 33:15

And he removed the foreign gods and statues from the house of the Lord, and all the altars that he built on the hill of the house of the Lord and Jerusalem, and he cast them outside the city.

2 Chronicles 33:19

And his prayer and how God received his entreaty, and all his sin and unfaithfulness, and the sites where he built high places and where he set up the Asherah poles and images before he humbled himself, behold, they are written in the sayings of Hozai.

2 Chronicles 34:25

Because they have abandoned Me and offered sacrifices to other gods in order to provoke Me with everything they have made with their hands, so My rage will be poured out on this place, and it will not be quenched.

Exodus 34:13

But you shall destroy their altars, break their sacred pillars, and cut down their Asherah poles

Ecclesiastes 2:19

And who knows if this man will be wise or foolish? Yet he will gain power over all for which I have toiled and used my wisdom under the sun. This also is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 9:18

Wisdom is better than weapons of war, but one sinner can destroy much that is good.

Jeremiah 17:2

as they remember their children, so they remember their altars and their groves by the green trees on the high hills.

Jeremiah 19:13

And the houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah will be defiled as the place of Topheth, because of all the houses upon whose roofs they have burned incense to all the host of heaven and have poured out drink offerings to other gods.

Jeremiah 7:30

For the Judahites have done evil in My sight, says the Lord. They have set their abominations in the house which is called by My name, to pollute it.

Jeremiah 8:2

And they will spread them before the sun and the moon and all the host of heaven, whom they have loved and whom they have served, and after whom they have walked and whom they have sought, and whom they have worshipped. They will not be gathered or be buried. They will be as dung upon the face of the earth.

Zephaniah 1:5

and those who bow down on the roofs to the host of heaven; those who worship and swear oaths by the Lord and yet swear by Milcom;

Acts 7:42

But God turned and gave them up to worship the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the Prophets: ‘O House of Israel, have you offered to Me slain animals and sacrifices for forty years in the wilderness?

Deuteronomy 16:21

You must not plant for yourself an Asherah of any trees near the altar of the Lord your God, which you make for yourself.

Deuteronomy 17:3

and has gone and served other gods and worshipped them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded,

Deuteronomy 4:19

And beware, lest you lift up your eyes to heaven, and when you see the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, you are led astray and worship them, and serve them, that which the Lord your God has allotted to all nations under the whole heaven.