2 Chronicles 14:3

Translations

Modern

He removed the foreign altars and high places, shattered the sacred pillars, and chopped down the Asherah poles.

Traditional

For he took away the altars of the strange gods, and the high places, and brake down the images, and cut down the groves:

Literal

…and he turned aside the altars of the stranger and the high places, and he broke down the pillars and cut down the Asherah poles,

Latin

Et confregit statuas, lucosque succidit:

Original

Hebrew

English

He removed the foreign altars and high places, shattered the sacred pillars, and chopped down the Asherah poles.

Notes

2 Chronicles 14:2–5

At the start of his reign, Asa removed the foreign altars in Judah (2 Chronicles 14:5). However, he did not remove the pagan shrines from Israel (2 Chronicles 15:17). These shrines were likely in the northern kingdom cities that Asa inherited from Abijah. Idolatry by other groups in the land troubled Judah throughout its history. This pagan activity might have increased again toward the end of Asa’s reign, over thirty years later.

Theme notes and profiles

Asa God’s Plan to Restore Trusting in Human Strength

Related verses

Deuteronomy 7:5
Instead, this is what you are to do to them: tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, cut down their Asherah poles, and burn their idols in the fire.
Exodus 34:13
Rather, you must tear down their altars, smash their sacred stones, and chop down their Asherah poles.
2 Kings 23:14
He smashed the sacred pillars to pieces, cut down the Asherah poles, and covered the sites with human bones.
1 Kings 15:12–14
He banished the male shrine prostitutes from the land and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
2 Chronicles 15:17
The high places were not removed from Israel, but Asa’s heart was fully devoted all his days.
Judges 6:25–28
On that very night the LORD said to Gideon, “Take your father’s young bull and a second bull seven years old, tear down your father’s altar to Baal, and cut down the Asherah pole beside it.
1 Kings 14:22–24
And Judah did evil in the sight of the LORD, and by the sins they committed they provoked Him to jealous anger more than all their fathers had done.
2 Kings 23:6
He brought the Asherah pole from the house of the LORD to the Kidron Valley outside Jerusalem, and there he burned it, ground it to powder, and threw its dust on the graves of the common people.
2 Kings 18:4
He removed the high places, shattered the sacred pillars, and cut down the Asherah poles. He also demolished the bronze snake called Nehushtan that Moses had made, for up to that time the Israelites had burned incense to it.
Deuteronomy 7:25
You must burn up the images of their gods; do not covet the silver and gold that is on them or take it for yourselves, or you will be ensnared by it; for it is detestable to the LORD your God.
1 Kings 11:7–8
At that time on a hill east of Jerusalem, Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab and for Molech the abomination of the Ammonites.
Leviticus 26:30
I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars, and heap your lifeless bodies on the lifeless remains of your idols; and My soul will despise you.

Parallels

1 Kings 15:9–15

People

Asherah: Canaanite goddess; associated with wooden poles, idolatry

Glossary

Asa Chronicles, Books of First and Second Genealogy

Topics

Groves: Destroyed by Asa High Places: Asa Destroys High Places: Destroyed: Asa, Partially Iconoclasm: Destroyed by Asa Religious Zeal: Asa Revivals: Asa Rulers: Righteous: Asa, in Abolishing Sodomy and Other Abominations of Idolatry

2 Chronicles 14:3

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