2 Chronicles 14:3

and turns aside the altars of the stranger, and the high places, and breaks the standing-pillars, and cuts down the Asherim,

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

For he took away the altars of the strange gods, and the high places, and brake down the images, and cut down the groves:

In Context

2And Asa does that which is good and that which is right in the eyes of his God YHWH,

4and commands to Judah to seek YHWH, God of their fathers, and to do the Law and the command;

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Cross References

Exodus 34:13for you break down their altars, and you shatter their standing pillars, and you cut down its Asherim;

Deuteronomy 7:5But thus you do to them: you break down their altars, and you shatter their standing pillars, and you cut down their Asherim, and you burn their carved images with fire.

Judges 6:25And it comes to pass, on that night, that YHWH says to him, “Take the young ox which your father has, and the second bullock of seven years, and you have thrown down the altar of Ba‘al which your father has, and cut down the Asherah which [is] by it,

1 Kings 14:22And Judah does evil in the eyes of YHWH, and they make Him zealous above all that their fathers did by their sins that they have sinned.

2 Kings 18:4he has turned aside the high places, and broken in pieces the standing-pillars, and cut down the Asherah, and beaten down the bronze serpent that Moses made, for up to these days the sons of Israel were making incense to it, and he calls it “a piece of bronze.”

2 Kings 23:14And he has broken the standing-pillars in pieces, and cuts down the Asherim, and fills their place with bones of men;

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 →

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