2 Chronicles 14:3
He took down the foreign altars and high places, smashed their sacred pillars, and cut down the Asherah poles.
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2Asa did what was good and right in the Lord's sight.
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Exodus 34:13For you must tear down their altars, knock down their idolatrous pillars, and cut down their Asherah poles,
Deuteronomy 7:5On the contrary, this is what you are to do to them: tear down their altars, knock down their idolatrous pillars, cut down their Asherah poles, and burn down their idols.
Judges 6:25That night the Lord told Gideon, “Take your father's bull and a second bull seven years old, and tear down your father's altar of Baal, and cut down the Asherah pole beside it.
1 Kings 14:22Judah did what was evil in the Lord's sight, and because of the sins they committed they made his jealous anger even greater than all their fathers had done.
2 Kings 18:4He removed the high places, smashed the stone idols, and cut down the Asherah poles. He ground to pieces the bronze snake Moses had made, because up to then the Israelites had been sacrificing offerings to it. It was called Nehushtan.
2 Kings 23:14He smashed the sacred stone pillars to pieces, chopped down the Asherah poles, and covered the places with human bones.
Matthew Henry on 2 Chronicles 14:2-9
Asa King of Judah. ( b. c. 955.) 1 So Abijah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David: and Asa his son reigned in his stead. In his days the land was quiet ten years. 2 And Asa did that which was good and right in the eyes of the Lord his God: 3 For he took away the altars of the strange gods, and the high places, and brake down the images, and cut down the groves: 4 And commanded Judah to seek the Lord God of their fathers, and to do the law and the commandment. 5 Also he took away out of… Read the whole commentary →