2 Chronicles 14:3
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And broke the statues, and cut down the groves.

For he took

Deuteronomy 7:5 But thus rather shall you deal with them: Destroy their altars, and break their statues, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven things.

1 Kings 11:7,8 Then Solomon built a temple for Chamos, the idol of Moab, on the hill that is over against Jerusalem, and for Moloch, the idol of the children of Ammon. . . .

1 Kings 14:22-24 And Juda did evil in the sight of the Lord, and provoked him above all that their fathers had done, in their sins which they committed. . . .

the high places

2 Chronicles 15:17 But high places were left in Israel: nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect all his days.

Leviticus 26:30 I will destroy your high places, and break your idols. You shall fall among the ruins of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you.

1 Kings 15:12-14 And he took away the effeminate out of the land, and removed all the filth of the idols, which his fathers had made. . . .

brake

2 Chronicles 34:4 And they broke down before him the altars of Baalim, and demolished the idols that had been set upon them: and he cut down the groves and the graven things, and broke them in pieces: and strewed the fragments upon the graves of them that had sacrificed to them.

Exodus 34:13 But destroy their altars, break their statues and cut down their groves:

Deuteronomy 7:5,25 But thus rather shall you deal with them: Destroy their altars, and break their statues, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven things. . . .

images [heb] statue

2 Kings 23:14 And he broke in pieces the statues, and cut down the groves: and he filled their places with the bones of dead men.

cut down

Judges 6:25-28 That night the Lord said to him: Take a bullock of thy father's, and another bullock of seven years, and thou shalt destroy the altar of Baal, which is thy father's: and cut down the grove that is about the altar: . . .

1 Kings 11:7 Then Solomon built a temple for Chamos, the idol of Moab, on the hill that is over against Jerusalem, and for Moloch, the idol of the children of Ammon.

2 Kings 18:4 He destroyed the high places, and broke the statues in pieces, and cut down the groves, and broke the brazen serpent, which Moses had made: for till that time the children of Israel burnt incense to it: and he called its name Nohestan.

2 Kings 23:6,14 And he caused the grove to be carried out from the house of the Lord, without Jerusalem, to the valley of Cedron, and he burnt it there, and reduced it to dust, and cast the dust upon the graves of the common people. . . .

Context
Asa Reigns in Judah
2And Asa did that which was good and pleasing in the sight of his God, and he destroyed the altars of foreign worship, and the high places. 3And broke the statues, and cut down the groves.4And he commanded Juda to seek the Lord the God of their fathers, and to do the law, and all the commandments.…
Cross References
Exodus 34:13
But destroy their altars, break their statues and cut down their groves:

Deuteronomy 7:5
But thus rather shall you deal with them: Destroy their altars, and break their statues, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven things.

1 Kings 15:12
And he took away the effeminate out of the land, and removed all the filth of the idols, which his fathers had made.

2 Chronicles 14:2
And Asa did that which was good and pleasing in the sight of his God, and he destroyed the altars of foreign worship, and the high places.

2 Chronicles 14:4
And he commanded Juda to seek the Lord the God of their fathers, and to do the law, and all the commandments.

Lexicon
He removed
וַיָּ֛סַר (way·yā·sar)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5493: To turn aside

the foreign
הַנֵּכָ֖ר (han·nê·ḵār)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5236: That which is foreign, foreignness

altars
מִזְבְּח֥וֹת (miz·bə·ḥō·wṯ)
Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's Hebrew 4196: An altar

and high places,
וְהַבָּמ֑וֹת (wə·hab·bā·mō·wṯ)
Conjunctive waw, Article | Noun - feminine plural
Strong's Hebrew 1116: An elevation

shattered
וַיְשַׁבֵּר֙ (way·šab·bêr)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7665: To break, break in pieces

their sacred pillars,
הַמַּצֵּב֔וֹת (ham·maṣ·ṣê·ḇō·wṯ)
Article | Noun - feminine plural
Strong's Hebrew 4676: Something stationed, a column, an idol

and chopped down
וַיְגַדַּ֖ע (way·ḡad·da‘)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1438: To fell a, tree, to destroy anything

the Asherah poles.
הָאֲשֵׁרִֽים׃ (hā·’ă·šê·rîm)
Article | Noun - feminine plural
Strong's Hebrew 842: A Phoenician goddess, also an image of the same


Additional Translations
He removed the foreign altars and high places, shattered their sacred pillars, and chopped down the Asherah poles.For he took away the altars of the strange gods, and the high places, and broke down the images, and cut down the groves:

for he took away the foreign altars, and the high places, and brake down the pillars, and hewed down the Asherim,

And he removed the altars of the strange gods, and the high places, and broke the pillars in pieces, and cut down the groves:

and he took away the altars of the strange [gods] and the high places, and broke the columns, and cut down the Asherahs;

for he took away the strange altars, and the high places, and brake down the pillars, and hewed down the Asherim;

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

for he took away the foreign altars, and the high places, and broke down the pillars, and cut down the Asherim,

and turneth aside the altars of the stranger, and the high places, and breaketh the standing-pillars, and cutteth down the shrines,
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