2 Kings 23:6

New Living Translation

The king removed the Asherah pole from the Lord’s Temple and took it outside Jerusalem to the Kidron Valley, where he burned it. Then he ground the ashes of the pole to dust and threw the dust over the graves of the people.

Cross References

1 Kings 14:23

For they also built for themselves pagan shrines and set up sacred pillars and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.

1 Kings 15:13

He even deposed his grandmother Maacah from her position as queen mother because she had made an obscene Asherah pole. He cut down her obscene pole and burned it in the Kidron Valley.

1 Kings 16:33

Then he set up an Asherah pole. He did more to provoke the anger of the Lord, the God of Israel, than any of the other kings of Israel before him.

1 Kings 2:37

On the day you so much as cross the Kidron Valley, you will surely die; and your blood will be on your own head.”

2 Kings 10:26

They dragged out the sacred pillar used in the worship of Baal and burned it.

2 Kings 10:27

They smashed the sacred pillar and wrecked the temple of Baal, converting it into a public toilet, as it remains to this day.

2 Kings 21:7

Manasseh even made a carved image of Asherah and set it up in the Temple, the very place where the Lord had told David and his son Solomon: “My name will be honored forever in this Temple and in Jerusalem—the city I have chosen from among all the tribes of Israel.

2 Kings 23:12

Josiah tore down the altars that the kings of Judah had built on the palace roof above the upper room of Ahaz. The king destroyed the altars that Manasseh had built in the two courtyards of the Lord’s Temple. He smashed them to bits and scattered the pieces in the Kidron Valley.

2 Kings 23:15

The king also tore down the altar at Bethel—the pagan shrine that Jeroboam son of Nebat had made when he caused Israel to sin. He burned down the shrine and ground it to dust, and he burned the Asherah pole.

2 Chronicles 15:16

King Asa even deposed his grandmother Maacah from her position as queen mother because she had made an obscene Asherah pole. He cut down her obscene pole, broke it up, and burned it in the Kidron Valley.

2 Chronicles 33:3

He rebuilt the pagan shrines his father, Hezekiah, had broken down. He constructed altars for the images of Baal and set up Asherah poles. He also bowed before all the powers of the heavens and worshiped them.

2 Chronicles 34:4

He ordered that the altars of Baal be demolished and that the incense altars which stood above them be broken down. He also made sure that the Asherah poles, the carved idols, and the cast images were smashed and scattered over the graves of those who had sacrificed to them.

Exodus 32:20

He took the calf they had made and burned it. Then he ground it into powder, threw it into the water, and forced the people to drink it.

Jeremiah 17:2

Even their children go to worship at their pagan altars and Asherah poles, beneath every green tree and on every high hill.

Jeremiah 22:18

Therefore, this is what the Lord says about Jehoiakim, son of King Josiah: “The people will not mourn for him, crying to one another, ‘Alas, my brother! Alas, my sister!’ His subjects will not mourn for him, crying, ‘Alas, our master is dead! Alas, his splendor is gone!’

Jeremiah 31:40

And the entire area—including the graveyard and ash dump in the valley, and all the fields out to the Kidron Valley on the east as far as the Horse Gate—will be holy to the Lord. The city will never again be captured or destroyed.”

John 18:1

After saying these things, Jesus crossed the Kidron Valley with his disciples and entered a grove of olive trees.

Deuteronomy 7:25

“You must burn their idols in fire, and you must not covet the silver or gold that covers them. You must not take it or it will become a trap to you, for it is detestable to the Lord your God.

Deuteronomy 9:21

I took your sin—the calf you had made—and I melted it down in the fire and ground it into fine dust. Then I threw the dust into the stream that flows down the mountain.

Judges 3:7

The Israelites did evil in the Lord’s sight. They forgot about the Lord their God, and they served the images of Baal and the Asherah poles.