Devine Scripture

2 Kings 18:4

2 Kings chapter 18 · verse 4 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

He removed the high places, and brake the pillars, and cut down the Asherah: and he brake in pieces the brazen serpent that Moses had made; for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it; and he called it Nehushtan.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

He removed the high places, and brake the pillars, and cut down the Asherah: and he brake in pieces the brazen serpent that Moses had made; for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it; and he called it Nehushtan.

Context

v.3And he did that which was right in the eyes of Jehovah, according to all that David his father had done.

v.4This passage

v.5He trusted in Jehovah, the God of Israel; so that after him was none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor among them that were before him.

Cross references

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

  • 2 Kings 23:4

    And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the threshold, to bring forth out of the temple of Jehovah all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the Asherah, and for all the host of heaven, and he burned them without Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron, and carried the ashes of them unto Beth-el.

  • John 3:14

    And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up;

  • 2 Kings 14:4

    Howbeit the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.

  • Judges 6:25

    And it came to pass the same night, that Jehovah said unto him, Take thy father’s bullock, even the second bullock seven years old, and throw down the altar of Baal that thy father hath, and cut down the Asherah that is by it;

  • Deuteronomy 12:2

    Ye shall surely destroy all the places wherein the nations that ye shall dispossess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree:

  • 1 Kings 3:2

    Only the people sacrificed in the high places, because there was no house built for the name of Jehovah until those days.