2 Chronicles 14:3

and took away the foreign altars, and the high places,—and brake in pieces the pillars, and cut in twain the Sacred Stems;

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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 did that which was good and that which was right, in the eyes of Yahweh his God;

4and bade Judah seek Yahweh, God of their fathers,-and execute the law, and the commandment;

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Cross References

Exodus 34:13For their altars, shall ye smash, And their pillars, shall ye shiver,—And their sacred-stems, shall ye fell.

Deuteronomy 7:5Verily, thus, shall ye do unto them: Their altars, shall ye tear down, And their pillars, shall ye break in pieces,—And their sacred stems, shall ye hew down, And their carved images, shall ye burn up in the fire.

Judges 6:25And it came to pass, on that night, that Yahweh said unto him—Take the young bullock that belongeth to thy father, even the second bullock of seven years,—and throw thou down the altar of Baal, that belongeth to thy father, and, the sacred stem that is by it, shalt thou cut down.

1 Kings 14:22And Judah did the thing that was wicked in the eyes of Yahweh,—and provoked him to jealousy, above all that their fathers had done, with their sins which they committed.

2 Kings 18:4He, removed the high places, and brake in pieces the pillars, and cut down the Sacred Stem,—and beat in pieces the serpent of bronze that, Moses, had made, because, until those days, had the sons of Israel been burning incense thereunto, so he called it Nehushtan.

2 Kings 23:14and he brake in pieces the pillars, and cut down the Sacred Stems,—and filled their place 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 →

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