2 Chronicles 14:3

What does 2 Chronicles 14:3 mean?

A plain-English look at 2 Chronicles 14:3 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

For he took away the altars of strange gods and the high places, and had the upright stones broken and the wood pillars cut down;

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

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

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

And broke the statues, and cut down the groves.

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

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

Context

v.2And Asa did that which was good and right in the eyes of Jehovah his God:

v.3This passage

v.4and commanded Judah to seek Jehovah, the God of their fathers, and to do the law and the commandment.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • 2 Chronicles 15:17

    But the high places were not taken away out of Israel: nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect all his days.

  • Deuteronomy 7:25

    The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire: thou shalt not covet the silver or the gold that is on them, nor take it unto thee, lest thou be snared therein; for it is an abomination to Jehovah thy God.

  • Leviticus 26:30

    And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your sun-images, and cast your dead bodies upon the bodies of your idols; and my soul shall abhor you.

  • 1 Kings 15:12

    And he put away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.

  • 1 Kings 14:22

    And Judah did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they committed, above all that their fathers had done.

  • 2 Chronicles 34:4

    And they brake down the altars of the Baalim in his presence; and the sun-images that were on high above them he hewed down; and the Asherim, and the graven images, and the molten images, he brake in pieces, and made dust of them, and strewed it upon the graves of them that had sacrificed unto them.

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