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2 Chronicles 34:7 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" 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. "

2 Chronicles 34:7

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5 He burned the bones of the priests on their altars, and purged Judah and Jerusalem.

6 He did this in the cities of Manasseh, Ephraim, and Simeon, even to Naphtali, around in their ruins.

7 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.

8 Now in the eighteenth year of his reign, when he had purged the land and the house, he sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, Maaseiah the governor of the city, and Joah the son of Joahaz the recorder to repair the house of the LORD his God.

9 They came to Hilkiah the high priest and delivered the money that was brought into God’s house, which the Levites, the keepers of the threshold, had gathered from the hands of Manasseh, Ephraim, of all the remnant of Israel, of all Judah and Benjamin, and of the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

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2 Chronicles 31:1

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"Now when all this was finished, all Israel who were present went out to the cities of Judah and broke the pillars in pieces, cut down the Asherah poles, and broke down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, also in Ephraim and Manasseh, until they had destroyed them all. Then all the children of Israel returned, every man to his possession, into their own cities."

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2 Chronicles 14:3

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"for he took away the foreign altars and the high places, broke down the pillars, cut down the Asherah poles,"

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2 Kings 23:12

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"The king broke down the altars that were on the roof of the upper room of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the LORD’s house, and beat them down from there, and cast their dust into the brook Kidron."

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2 Kings 23:8

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"He brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense, from Geba to Beersheba; and he broke down the high places of the gates that were at the entrance of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which were on a man’s left hand at the gate of the city."

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Deuteronomy 12:3

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"You shall break down their altars, dash their pillars in pieces, and burn their Asherah poles with fire. You shall cut down the engraved images of their gods. You shall destroy their name out of that place."

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1 Maccabees 3:8

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"He went through the cities of Judah, destroyed the ungodly out of the land, and turned away wrath from Israel."

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2 Chronicles 34:1

"Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem."

2 Chronicles 34:2

"He did that which was right in the LORD’s eyes, and walked in the ways of David his father, and didn’t turn away to the right hand or to the left."

2 Chronicles 34:3

"For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father; and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, the Asherah poles, the engraved images, and the molten images."

2 Chronicles 34:4

"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."

2 Chronicles 34:5

"He burned the bones of the priests on their altars, and purged Judah and Jerusalem."

2 Chronicles 34:6

"He did this in the cities of Manasseh, Ephraim, and Simeon, even to Naphtali, around in their ruins."

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