2 Chronicles 14:3

And commanded Yehudah to seek Hashem Elohei Avoteihem, and to observe the Torah and the Mitzvah.

Orthodox Jewish Bible

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

2For he took away the mizbechot hanekhar (foreign altars), and the high places, and smashed the matzevot, and cut down the Asherim;

4Also he took away out of all the towns of Yehudah the high places and the chammanim (sun-pillar idols); and the mamlachah was at peace under him.

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Cross References

Exodus 34:13But ye shall destroy their mizbechot, break their matzebot, and cut down their asherah (sacred trees, poles);

Deuteronomy 7:5But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall destroy their mizbechot, and break down their matzeivot (pillars), and cut down their Asherah, + 7:5 sacred trees and burn their peselim with eish.

Judges 6:25And it came to pass the same night, that Hashem said unto him, Take thy fatherʼs young bull, even the second bull of sheva shanim, and tear down the mizbe'ach of Ba'al that thy av hath, and cut down the Asherah that is beside it;

1 Kings 14:22And Yehudah did the rah in the eyes of Hashem, and they provoked Him to kina (jealousy) with their chattot which they had committed, which were more than all that their avot had done.

2 Kings 18:4He removed the + 18:4 idolatrous high places and smashed the matzevot, and cut down the Asherah, and broke in pieces the nachash nechoshet that Moshe had made; for up to those yamim the Bnei Yisroel did burn ketoret to it; and it was called Nechushtan.

2 Kings 23:14And he broke in pieces the matzevot, and cut down the Asherim, and filled their makom with the atzmot adam.

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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