2 Chronicles 34:7

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

he broke down the altars, beat the sacred poles and the images into powder, and demolished all the incense altars throughout all the land of Israel. Then he returned to Jerusalem.

Cross References

2 Kings 10:26

They brought out the pillar that was in the temple of Baal and burned it.

2 Kings 23:15

Moreover, the altar at Bethel, the high place erected by Jeroboam son of Nebat, who caused Israel to sin—he pulled down that altar along with the high place. He burned the high place, crushing it to dust; he also burned the sacred pole.

2 Kings 23:19

Moreover, Josiah removed all the shrines of the high places that were in the towns of Samaria that kings of Israel had made, provoking the Lord to anger; he did to them just as he had done at Bethel.

2 Chronicles 14:2

Asa did what was good and right in the sight of the Lord his God.

2 Chronicles 14:5

He also removed from all the cities of Judah the high places and the incense altars. And the kingdom was quiet under him.

2 Chronicles 31:1

Now when all this was finished, all Israel who were present went out to the cities of Judah and broke down the pillars, cut down the sacred poles, and pulled down the high places and the altars throughout all Judah and Benjamin, and in Ephraim and Manasseh, until they had destroyed them all. Then all the people of Israel returned to their cities, all to their individual properties.

2 Chronicles 34:1

Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign; he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem.

Exodus 34:13

Rather, you shall tear down their altars, break their pillars, and cut down their sacred poles,

Isaiah 17:8

they will not have regard for the altars, the work of their hands, and they will not look to what their own fingers have made, either the sacred poles or the altars of incense.

Leviticus 26:30

I will destroy your high places and cut down your incense altars; I will heap your carcasses on the carcasses of your idols. I will abhor you.

Micah 1:7

All her images shall be beaten to pieces, all her wages shall be burned with fire, and all her idols I will lay waste; for as the wages of a prostitute she gathered them, and as the wages of a prostitute they shall again be used.

Deuteronomy 9:21

Then I took the sinful thing you had made, the calf, and burned it with fire and crushed it, grinding it thoroughly, until it was reduced to dust, and I threw the dust into the stream that runs down the mountain.