2 Chronicles 14:3
1 Then Abijah rested with his fathers and was buried in the City of David. And his son Asa reigned in his place, and in his days the land was at peace for ten years.
2 And Asa did what was good and right in the eyes of the LORD his God.
He removed the foreign altars and high places, shattered the sacred pillars, and chopped down the Asherah poles.
4 He commanded the people of Judah to seek the LORD, the God of their fathers, and to observe the law and the commandments.
5 He also removed the high places and incense altars from all the cities of Judah, and under him the kingdom was at peace.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- He removed the foreign altars and high places, shattered the sacred pillars, and chopped down the Asherah poles.
- KJV
- For he took away the altars of the strange gods, and the high places, and brake down the images, and cut down the groves:
- WEB
- for he took away the foreign altars and the high places, broke down the pillars, cut down the Asherah poles,
- ASV
- for he took away the foreign altars, and the high places, and brake down the pillars, and hewed down the Asherim,
- DARBY
- and he took away the altars of the strange [gods] and the high places, and broke the columns, and cut down the Asherahs;
- BLB
- and he turned aside the altars of the stranger and the high places, and he broke down the pillars and cut down the Asherah poles,
- ÅB
- Han fikk bort de fremmede guders altere og offerhaugene og sønderbrøt støttene og hugg Astartebildene i stykker.
- OTB
- for han fjernet de fremmede altrene og offerhaugene, rev ned minnesteinene og hogg ned Asjera-stolpene,
- B1930
- Han fikk bort de fremmede guders altere og offerhaugene og sønderbrøt støttene og hugg Astartebilledene i stykker.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Deuteronomy 7:5
Instead, this is what you are to do to them: tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, cut down their Asherah poles, and burn their idols in the fire.
Read in context2 Kings 23:14
He smashed the sacred pillars to pieces, cut down the Asherah poles, and covered the sites with human bones.
Read in contextExodus 34:13
Rather, you must tear down their altars, smash their sacred stones, and chop down their Asherah poles.
Read in context1 Kings 15:12–14
He banished the male shrine prostitutes from the land and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
Read in context2 Chronicles 15:17
The high places were not removed from Israel, but Asa’s heart was fully devoted all his days.
Read in contextLeviticus 26:30
I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars, and heap your lifeless bodies on the lifeless remains of your idols; and My soul will despise you.
Read in contextJudges 6:25–28
On that very night the LORD said to Gideon, “Take your father’s young bull and a second bull seven years old, tear down your father’s altar to Baal, and cut down the Asherah pole beside it.
Read in context2 Kings 18:4
He removed the high places, shattered the sacred pillars, and cut down the Asherah poles. He also demolished the bronze snake called Nehushtan that Moses had made, for up to that time the Israelites had burned incense to it.
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