Isaiah 17:8

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• Prophecies of Isaiahc. 759 BC

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• Isaiah 30:22
  So you will desecrate your silver-plated idols and your gold-plated images. You will throw them away like menstrual cloths, saying to them, “Be gone!”
• Isaiah 27:9
  Therefore Jacob’s guilt will be atoned for, and the full fruit of the removal of his sin will be this: When he makes all the altar stones like crushed bits of chalk, no Asherah poles or incense altars will remain standing.
• Micah 5:13–14
  I will also cut off the carved images and sacred pillars from among you, so that you will no longer bow down to the work of your own hands.
• Isaiah 2:8
  Their land is full of idols; they bow down to the work of their hands, to what their fingers have made.
• Zephaniah 1:3
  “I will sweep away man and beast; I will sweep away the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea, and the idols with their wicked worshipers. I will cut off mankind from the face of the earth,” declares the LORD.
• Hosea 8:4–6
  They set up kings, but not by Me. They make princes, but without My approval. With their silver and gold they make themselves idols, to their own destruction.
• 2 Chronicles 34:4
  Then in his presence the altars of the Baals were torn down, and he cut to pieces the incense altars that were above them. He shattered the Asherah poles, the carved idols, and the cast images, crushed them to dust, and scattered them over the graves of those who had sacrificed to them.
• Exodus 34:13
  Rather, you must tear down their altars, smash their sacred stones, and chop down their Asherah poles.
• 2 Chronicles 34:6–7
  Josiah did the same in the cities of Manasseh, Ephraim, and Simeon, as far as Naphtali, and in the ruins around them.
• 2 Chronicles 14:5
  He also removed the high places and incense altars from all the cities of Judah, and under him the kingdom was at peace.
• Isaiah 44:19–20
  And no one considers in his heart, no one has the knowledge or insight to say, “I burned half of it in the fire, and I baked bread on its coals; I roasted meat and I ate. Shall I make something detestable with the rest of it? Shall I bow down to a block of wood?”
• Isaiah 2:18–21
  …and the idols will vanish completely.

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Jeremiah 49:23–27

People

Asherah: Canaanite goddess; associated with wooden poles, idolatry

Glossary

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Book of Jeremiah· Isaiah, Book of

Topics

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Groves: Forbidden to be Established· Groves: God Promised to Wean Israel From· Idolatry: Prophecies Relating To· Prophecies Concerning Israel: Prophecies Concerning of Captivity, Famine, and Judgments