"For he took away the altars of the strange {gods}, and the high places, and brake down the images, and cut down the grov…" — 2 Chronicles 14:3

2 Chronicles 14:3 · KJV

“For he took away the altars of the strange {gods}, and the high places, and brake down the images, and cut down the groves: {images: Heb. statues}”

— 2 Chronicles 14:3

Verse 2

And Asa did {that which was} good and right in the eyes of the LORD his God:

Verse 4

And commanded Judah to seek the LORD God of their fathers, and to do the law and the commandment.

2 Chronicles 14 — Context

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.

And Asa did {that which was} good and right in the eyes of the LORD his God:

For he took away the altars of the strange {gods}, and the high places, and brake down the images, and cut down the groves: {images: Heb. statues}

And commanded Judah to seek the LORD God of their fathers, and to do the law and the commandment.

Also he took away out of all the cities of Judah the high places and the images: and the kingdom was quiet before him. {images: Heb. sun images}

Cross References

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. {their images: Heb. their statues, or, pillars}

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. {images: Heb. statues}

Exodus 34:13

But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves: {images: Heb. statues}

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.

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.

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.

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.