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2 Kings 18:4 · KJV

“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. {images: Heb. statues} {Nehushtan: that is, A piece of brass}”

— 2 Kings 18:4

Verse 3

And he did {that which was} right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that David his father did.

Verse 5

He trusted in the LORD God of Israel; so that after him was none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor {any} that were before him.

2 Kings 18 — Context

2

Twenty and five years old was he when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also {was} Abi, the daughter of Zachariah. {Abi: also called, Abijah}

3

And he did {that which was} right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that David his father did.

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. {images: Heb. statues} {Nehushtan: that is, A piece of brass}

5

He trusted in the LORD God of Israel; so that after him was none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor {any} that were before him.

6

For he clave to the LORD, {and} departed not from following him, but kept his commandments, which the LORD commanded Moses. {from...: Heb. from after him}

Cross References

2 Chronicles 31:1

Now when all this was finished, all Israel that were present went out to the cities of Judah, and brake the images in pieces, and cut down the groves, and threw down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, in Ephraim also and Manasseh, until they had utterly destroyed them all. Then all the children of Israel returned, every man to his possession, into their own cities. {present: Heb. found} {images: Heb. statues} {until...: Heb. until to make an end}

Numbers 21:8-9

And the LORD said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live.

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 Kings 12:3

But the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.

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}

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.

1 Kings 3:2-3

Only the people sacrificed in high places, because there was no house built unto the name of the LORD, until those days.

1 Kings 22:43

And he walked in all the ways of Asa his father; he turned not aside from it, doing {that which was} right in the eyes of the LORD:

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