2 Chronicles 14:3
For he took away the altars of the strange gods, and the high places, and brake down the images, and cut down the groves:
2 Chronicles 14:3 in other translations
| BSB | He removed the foreign altars and high places, shattered the sacred pillars, and chopped down the Asherah poles. |
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| WEB | for he took away the foreign altars and the high places, broke down the pillars, cut down the Asherah poles, |
| ASV | for he took away the foreign altars, and the high places, and brake down the pillars, and hewed down the Asherim, |
| YLT | and turneth aside the altars of the stranger, and the high places, and breaketh the standing-pillars, and cutteth down the shrines, |
| DARBY | and he took away the altars of the strange gods and the high places, and broke the columns, and cut down the Asherahs; |
| BBE | For he took away the altars of strange gods and the high places, and had the upright stones broken and the wood pillars cut down; |
| Webster | For he took away the altars of the strange gods, and the high places, and broke down the images, and cut down the groves: |
What does 2 Chronicles 14:3 mean?
2 Chronicles 14:3 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for 2 Chronicles 14:3
- Deuteronomy 7:5
But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire.
- 2 Kings 23:14
And he brake in pieces the images, and cut down the groves, and filled their places with the bones of men.
- Exodus 34:13
But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves:
- 1 Kings 15:12-14
And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made. And also Maachah his mother, even her he removed from being queen, because she had made an idol in a grove; and Asa destroyed her idol, and burnt it by the brook Kidron. But the high places were not removed: nevertheless Asa’s heart was perfect with the Lord all his days.
- 2 Chronicles 15:17
But the high places were not taken away out of Israel: nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect all his days.
- Leviticus 26:30
And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you.
- Judges 6:25-28
And it came to pass the same night, that the Lord said unto him, Take thy father’s young bullock, even the second bullock of seven years old, and throw down the altar of Baal that thy father hath, and cut down the grove that is by it: And build an altar unto the Lord thy God upon the top of this rock, in the ordered place, and take the second bullock, and offer a burnt sacrifice with the wood of the grove which thou shalt cut down. Then Gideon took ten men of his servants, and did as the Lord had said unto him: and so it was, because he feared his father’s household, and the men of the city, that he could not do it by day, that he did it by night. And when the men of the city arose early in the morning, behold, the altar of Baal was cast down, and the grove was cut down that was by it, and the second bullock was offered upon the altar that was built.
- 2 Kings 18:4
He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan.
- 1 Kings 11:7-8
Then did Solomon build an high place for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, in the hill that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the abomination of the children of Ammon. And likewise did he for all his strange wives, which burnt incense and sacrificed unto their gods.
- 1 Kings 14:22-24
And Judah did evil in the sight of the Lord, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they had committed, above all that their fathers had done. For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree. And there were also sodomites in the land: and they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the Lord cast out before the children of Israel.
- Deuteronomy 7:25
The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire: thou shalt not desire the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it unto thee, lest thou be snared therein: for it is an abomination to the Lord thy God.
- 2 Kings 23:6
And he brought out the grove from the house of the Lord, without Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and stamped it small to powder, and cast the powder thereof upon the graves of the children of the people.
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Context
- 2 Chronicles 14:2
And Asa did that which was good and right in the eyes of the Lord his God:
- 2 Chronicles 14:3
For he took away the altars of the strange gods, and the high places, and brake down the images, and cut down the groves:
- 2 Chronicles 14:4
And commanded Judah to seek the Lord God of their fathers, and to do the law and the commandment.
2 Chronicles 14:3 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Porque quitó los altares del culto ajeno, y los altos; quebró las imágenes, y taló los bosques; |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | et il dit à Juda de rechercher l’ Éternel, le Dieu de leurs pères, et de pratiquer la loi et les commandements; |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Und er tat die fremden Altäre und die Höhen hinweg, und zerschlug die Bildsäulen und hieb die Ascherim um; |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Et confregit statuas, lucosque succidit: |