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2 Chronicles 23:17 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" All the people went to the house of Baal, broke it down, broke his altars and his images in pieces, and killed Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. "

2 Chronicles 23:17

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15 So they made way for her. She went to the entrance of the horse gate to the king’s house; and they killed her there.

16 Jehoiada made a covenant between himself, all the people, and the king, that they should be the LORD’s people.

17 All the people went to the house of Baal, broke it down, broke his altars and his images in pieces, and killed Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars.

18 Jehoiada appointed the officers of the LORD’s house under the hand of the Levitical priests, whom David had distributed in the LORD’s house, to offer the burnt offerings of the LORD, as it is written in the law of Moses, with rejoicing and with singing, as David had ordered.

19 He set the gatekeepers at the gates of the LORD’s house, that no one who was unclean in anything should enter in.

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2 Kings 11:18

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"All the people of the land went to the house of Baal, and broke it down. They broke his altars and his images in pieces thoroughly, and killed Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. The priest appointed officers over the LORD’s house."

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2 Chronicles 34:4

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"They broke down the altars of the Baals in his presence; and he cut down the incense altars that were on high above them. He broke the Asherah poles, the engraved images, and the molten images in pieces, made dust of them, and scattered it on the graves of those who had sacrificed to them."

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2 Kings 10:26

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"They brought out the pillars that were in the house of Baal and burned them."

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2 Chronicles 34:7

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"He broke down the altars, beat the Asherah poles and the engraved images into powder, and cut down all the incense altars throughout all the land of Israel, then returned to Jerusalem."

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Judges 6:28

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"When the men of the city arose early in the morning, behold, the altar of Baal was broken down, and the Asherah was cut down that was by it, and the second bull was offered on the altar that was built."

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Hosea 11:2

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"They called to them, so they went from them. They sacrificed to the Baals, and burned incense to engraved images."

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2 Chronicles 23:1

"In the seventh year, Jehoiada strengthened himself, and took the captains of hundreds—Azariah the son of Jeroham, Ishmael the son of Jehohanan, Azariah the son of Obed, Maaseiah the son of Adaiah, and Elishaphat the son of Zichri—into a covenant with him."

2 Chronicles 23:2

"They went around in Judah and gathered the Levites out of all the cities of Judah, and the heads of fathers’ households of Israel, and they came to Jerusalem."

2 Chronicles 23:3

"All the assembly made a covenant with the king in God’s house. Jehoiada said to them, “Behold, the king’s son must reign, as the LORD has spoken concerning the sons of David."

2 Chronicles 23:4

"This is the thing that you must do: a third part of you, who come in on the Sabbath, of the priests and of the Levites, shall be gatekeepers of the thresholds."

2 Chronicles 23:5

"A third part shall be at the king’s house; and a third part at the gate of the foundation. All the people will be in the courts of the LORD’s house."

2 Chronicles 23:6

"But let no one come into the LORD’s house except the priests and those who minister of the Levites. They shall come in, for they are holy, but all the people shall follow the LORD’s instructions."

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