2 Chronicles 14:3
for he took away the foreign altars and the high places. He broke down the stone pillars and cut down the Asherah poles.
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2Asa did what was good and right in the eyes of Yahweh his God,
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Exodus 34:13Instead, you must break down their altars, smash their stone pillars, and cut down their Asherah poles.
Deuteronomy 7:5This is how you will deal with them: You will break down their altars, dash their stone pillars in pieces, cut down their Asherah poles, and burn their cast idols.
Judges 6:25That night Yahweh said to him, “Take your father's bull, and a second bull that is seven years old, and pull apart the altar of Baal that belongs to your father, and cut down the Asherah that is beside it.
1 Kings 14:22Judah did what was evil in the sight of Yahweh; they provoked him to jealousy with the sins that they committed, more than everything that their fathers had done.
2 Kings 18:4He removed the high places, destroyed the stone pillars, and cut down the Asherah poles. He broke to pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made, because in those days the people of Israel were burning incense to it; it was called “Nehushtan.”
2 Kings 23:14He broke the stone pillars into pieces and cut down the Asherah poles and he filled those places with the bones of human beings.
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 →