2 Chronicles 14:3 He removed the foreign altars and the high places, smashed the sacred stones and cut down the Asherah poles.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
He removed the foreign altars and the high places, smashed the sacred stones and cut down the Asherah poles.

English Standard Version
He took away the foreign altars and the high places and broke down the pillars and cut down the Asherim

New American Standard Bible
for he removed the foreign altars and high places, tore down the sacred pillars, cut down the Asherim,

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

Holman Christian Standard Bible
He removed the pagan altars and the high places. He shattered their sacred pillars and chopped down their Asherah poles.

International Standard Version
by removing the foreign altars and high places, tearing down the sacred pillars, cutting down the Asherim, and

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

Douay-Rheims Bible
And broke the statues, and cut down the groves.

Darby Bible Translation
and he took away the altars of the strange gods and the high places, and broke the columns, and cut down the Asherahs;

Young's Literal Translation
and turneth aside the altars of the stranger, and the high places, and breaketh the standing-pillars, and cutteth down the shrines,

Cross References

Exodus 34:13
But you shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves:

Deuteronomy 7:5
But thus shall you deal with them; you shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire.

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

2 Chronicles 14:2
And Asa did that which was good and right in the eyes of the LORD his God:

2 Chronicles 14:4
And commanded Judah to seek the LORD God of their fathers, and to do the law and the commandment.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

14:1-15 Asa's piety, He strengthens his kingdom. - Asa aimed at pleasing God, and studied to approve himself to him. Happy those that walk by this rule, not to do that which is right in their own eyes, or in the eye of the world, but which is so in God's sight. We find by experience that it is good to seek the Lord; it gives us rest; while we pursue the world, we meet with nothing but vexation. Asa consulted with his people how to make a good use of the peace they enjoyed; and concluded with them that they must not be idle, nor secure. A formidable army of Ethiopians invaded Asa's kingdom. This evil came upon them, that their faith in God might be tried. Asa's prayer is short, but it is the real language of faith and expectation from God. When we go forth in God's name, we cannot but prosper, and all things work together for the good of those whom he favours.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

3. brake down the images—of Baal (see on [436]2Ch 34:4; [437]Le 26:30).

cut down the groves—rather, "Asherim."