2 Kings 18:4

Tree of Life Version

He removed the high places, smashed the pillars and cut down the Asherah poles. He also broke in pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made—for up to those days Bnei-Yisrael were still burning incense to it—it was called Nehushtan .

Cross References

1 Kings 22:43

He walked in all the ways of his father Asa, not straying from them, but doing what was right in Adonai’s eyes.

2 Kings 10:26

brought out the pillars of the temple of Baal, and burned them.

2 Kings 11:18

Next, all the people of the land went to the temple of Baal and tore it down. They broke his altars and his images into pieces thoroughly, and slew Mattan, the priest of Baal, before the altars. Moreover, the kohen appointed officers over the House of Adonai.

2 Kings 12:3

Now Jehoash did what was right in Adonai’s eyes all his days, just as Jehoiada the kohen instructed him.

2 Kings 14:4

Still, the high places were not taken away. The people were still sacrificing and burning incense in the high places.

2 Kings 15:35

However, the high places were not taken away, and the people were still sacrificing and burning incense on the high places. It was he who built the upper gate of the House of Adonai.

2 Kings 15:4

However, the high places were not taken away—the people were still sacrificing and burning incense on the high places.

2 Kings 16:15

Then King Ahaz commanded Urijah the kohen saying, “Upon the great altar you will burn the morning burnt offering and the evening grain offering, the king’s burnt offering and his grain offering, with the burnt offering of all the people of the land and their grain offering and their drink offering. Also sprinkle on it all the blood of the burnt offering and all the blood of the sacrifices. But the bronze altar will be for me to inquire by.”

2 Kings 18:22

“But if you say to me: ‘We trust in Adonai our God’—is it not He whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has removed, and then said to Judah and Jerusalem: ‘You must worship before this altar in Jerusalem’?

2 Kings 21:3

For he rebuilt the shrines that his father Hezekiah had destroyed and he erected altars for Baal and made an Asherah pole, as King Ahab of Israel had done, and bowed down to all the host of heaven and worshipped them.

2 Kings 23:14

He smashed the pillars and cut down the Asherah poles and filled their places with human bones.

2 Kings 23:4

Then the king commanded Hilkiah the kohen gadol , the kohanim of the second order and the doorkeepers to bring out of the Temple of Adonai all the vessels made for Baal and Asherah, and all the host of heaven, and he burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and took their ashes to Bethel.

2 Chronicles 19:3

Nevertheless, good things are found in you, for you have removed the Asherah poles out of the land and have set your heart to seek God.”

2 Chronicles 31:1

When all this was finished, all Israel who were present went out to the towns of Judah and smashed the pillars, smashed the Asherah poles and demolished the high places and the altars throughout all Judah and Benjamin, as well as throughout Ephraim and Manasseh, until they had destroyed them all. Then all Bnei-Yisrael returned to their towns, each to their own property.

2 Chronicles 33:3

For he rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had demolished, he reerected altars for the Baalim, made Asherah poles, and bowed down to all the host of heaven and worshipped them.

Psalm 78:58

For they provoked Him with their high places, so they aroused His jealousy with their graven images.

Exodus 23:24

You are not to bow down to their gods or serve them, or do what they do. Rather, you are to utterly overthrow them, and break their pillars in pieces.

Exodus 34:13

Instead you must break down their ­altars, smash their pillars and cut down their Asherah poles.

Isaiah 36:7

“‘But if you say to me: ‘We trust in Adonai our God’—is it not He whose high places and altars Hezekiah has removed, and then said to Judah and to Jerusalem, ‘You must worship before this altar’?

Leviticus 26:30

I will destroy your high places and cut down your altars of incense, cast your dead bodies upon the bodies of your idols, and My soul will abhor you.

Deuteronomy 5:5

(I was standing between Adonai and you at that time, to tell you the word of Adonai, because you were afraid because of the fire and did not go up the mountain.) ‘He said:

Deuteronomy 7:5

Instead, you are to deal with them like this: tear down their altars, smash their pillars, cut down their Asherah poles, and burn their carved images with fire.

Judges 6:25

Now it came to pass the same night that Adonai said to him, “Take the young bull that belongs to your father and a second bull of seven years old, pull down the altar of Baal that belongs to your father, cut down the Asherah that is beside it,

Judges 6:28

Now when the townspeople arose early in the morning, behold, the altar of Baal was broken down, the Asherah pole that was beside it was cut down, and the second bull was offered up on the altar that was built.