2 Chronicles 30 · Verse 14

2 Chronicles 30:14

And they arose and took away the altars that were in Jerusalem, and all the altars for incense took they away, and cast them into the brook Kidron.
2 Chronicles 30:14, King James Version

2 Chronicles 30:14 in other translations

BSBThey proceeded to remove the altars in Jerusalem and to take away the incense altars and throw them into the Kidron Valley.
WEBThey arose and took away the altars that were in Jerusalem, and they took away all the altars for incense and threw them into the brook Kidron.
ASVAnd they arose and took away the altars that were in Jerusalem, and all the altars for incense took they away, and cast them into the brook Kidron.
YLTAnd they arise and turn aside the altars that are in Jerusalem, and all the perfume altars they have turned aside, and cast them to the brook Kidron;
DARBYAnd they rose up and took away the altars that were in Jerusalem; and they took away all the incense-altars, and cast them into the torrent Kidron.
BBEAnd they got to work and took away all the altars in Jerusalem, and they put all the vessels for burning perfumes into the stream Kidron.
WebsterAnd they arose and took away the altars that were in Jerusalem, and all the altars for incense they took away, and cast them into the brook Kidron.

What does 2 Chronicles 30:14 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
14. they arose and took away the altars that were in Jerusalem--As a necessary preparation for the right observance of the approaching solemnity, the removal of the altars, which Ahaz had erected in the city, was resolved upon (2Ch 28:24); for, as the people of God, the Hebrews were bound to extirpate all traces of idolatry; and it was a happy sign and pledge of the influence of the Spirit pervading the minds of the people when they voluntarily undertook this important preliminary work.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on 2 Chronicles 30:13-20

The great thing needful in attendance upon God in solemn ordinances, is, that we make heart-work of it; all is nothing without this. Where this sincerity and fixedness of heart are, there may yet be many things short of the purification of the sanctuary. These defects need pardoning, healing grace; for omissions in duty are sins, as well as omissions of duty. If God should deal with us in strict justice, even as to…

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2 Chronicles 30:14 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וַיָּקֻ֕מוּvai.ya.Ku.muand they aroseH6965
וַיָּסִ֙ירוּ֙vai.ya.Si.ruand they removedH5493
אֶת\־'et-<obj.>H853
הַֽמִּזְבְּח֔וֹתha.miz.be.Chotthe altarsH4196
אֲשֶׁ֖ר'a.SherwhichH834
בִּירוּשָׁלִָ֑םbi.ru.sha.Lim[were] in JerusalemH3389
וְאֵ֤תve.'Etand <obj.>H853
כָּל\־kol-allH3605
הַֽמְקַטְּרוֹת֙ham.ka.te.rOtthe incense altarsH6999
הֵסִ֔ירוּhe.Si.ruthey removedH5493
וַיַּשְׁלִ֖יכוּvai.yash.Li.khuand they threw [them]H7993
לְנַ֥חַלle.Na.chalto [the] wadi ofH5158
קִדְרֽוֹן\׃kid.RonKidronH6939

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Cross references for 2 Chronicles 30:14

  • 2 Chronicles 28:24

    And Ahaz gathered together the vessels of the house of God, and cut in pieces the vessels of the house of God, and shut up the doors of the house of the Lord, and he made him altars in every corner of Jerusalem.

  • 2 Chronicles 29:16

    And the priests went into the inner part of the house of the Lord, to cleanse it, and brought out all the uncleanness that they found in the temple of the Lord into the court of the house of the Lord. And the Levites took it, to carry it out abroad into the brook Kidron.

  • 2 Chronicles 15:16

    And also concerning Maachah the mother of Asa the king, he removed her from being queen, because she had made an idol in a grove: and Asa cut down her idol, and stamped it, and burnt it at the brook Kidron.

  • 2 Samuel 15:23

    And all the country wept with a loud voice, and all the people passed over: the king also himself passed over the brook Kidron, and all the people passed over, toward the way of the wilderness.

  • John 18:1

    When Jesus had spoken these words, he went forth with his disciples over the brook Cedron, where was a garden, into the which he entered, and his disciples.

  • 2 Kings 23:12-13

    And the altars that were on the top of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the Lord, did the king beat down, and brake them down from thence, and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron. And the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had builded for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Zidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon, did the king defile.

  • 2 Kings 18:22

    But if ye say unto me, We trust in the Lord our God: is not that he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and hath said to Judah and Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem?

  • 2 Chronicles 34:4

    And they brake down the altars of Baalim in his presence; and the images, that were on high above them, he cut down; and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images, he brake in pieces, and made dust of them, and strowed it upon the graves of them that had sacrificed unto them.

  • 2 Chronicles 34:7

    And when he had broken down the altars and the groves, and had beaten the graven images into powder, and cut down all the idols throughout all the land of Israel, he returned to Jerusalem.

  • Isaiah 2:18-20

    And the idols he shall utterly abolish. And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, for fear of the Lord, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth. In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made each one for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats;

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
altars.
28:24; 34:4,7; 2Ki 18:22; 23:12,13; Isa 2:18-20
the brook.
15:16; 29:16; 2Sa 15:23; Joh 18:1
Cedron.

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Context

  • 2 Chronicles 30:13

    And there assembled at Jerusalem much people to keep the feast of unleavened bread in the second month, a very great congregation.

  • 2 Chronicles 30:14

    And they arose and took away the altars that were in Jerusalem, and all the altars for incense took they away, and cast them into the brook Kidron.

  • 2 Chronicles 30:15

    Then they killed the passover on the fourteenth day of the second month: and the priests and the Levites were ashamed, and sanctified themselves, and brought in the burnt offerings into the house of the Lord.

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2 Chronicles 30:14 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Y levantándose, quitaron los altares que había en Jerusalem; quitaron también todos los altares de perfumes, y echáronlos en el torrente de Cedrón.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Et ils se levèrent, et ôtèrent les autels qui étaient dans Jérusalem; et ils ôtèrent tous les autels à encens, et les jetèrent dans le torrent du Cédron.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Und sie machten sich auf und schafften die Altäre weg, die in Jerusalem waren; auch alle Räucheraltäre schafften sie weg und warfen sie in den Bach Kidron.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
et surgentes destruxerunt altaria quæ erant in Jerusalem, atque universa in quibus idolis adolebatur incensum, subvertentes, projecerunt in torrentem Cedron.