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Selected Verse: 2 Chronicles 14:3 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| 2Ch 14:3 |
King James |
For he took away the altars of the strange gods, and the high places, and brake down the images, and cut down the groves: |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
brake down the images--of Baal (see on Ch2 34:4; Lev 26:30).
cut down the groves--rather, "Asherim." |
| The Scofield Bible Commentary, by Cyrus Ingerson Scofield, [1917] |
places
(See Scofield) - (Kg1 3:2).
(See Scofield) - (Kg1 15:14).
groves
(See Scofield) - (Deu 16:21).
(See Scofield) - (Jdg 3:7). |
30 And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you.
4 And they brake down the altars of Baalim in his presence; and the images, that were on high above them, he cut down; and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images, he brake in pieces, and made dust of them, and strowed it upon the graves of them that had sacrificed unto them.
7 And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and forgat the LORD their God, and served Baalim and the groves.
21 Thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees near unto the altar of the LORD thy God, which thou shalt make thee.
14 But the high places were not removed: nevertheless Asa's heart was perfect with the LORD all his days.
2 Only the people sacrificed in high places, because there was no house built unto the name of the LORD, until those days.