2-Chronicles - 14:3

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

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Explanation and meaning of 2-Chronicles 14:3.

Differing Translations

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For he took away the altars of the strange gods, and the high places, and brake 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 broke the statues, 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:
and turneth aside the altars of the stranger, and the high places, and breaketh the standing-pillars, and cutteth down the shrines,
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;
for he took away the strange altars, and the high places, and broke down the pillars, and hewed down the Asherim;
And he broke apart the statues, and he cut down the sacred groves.

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Historical Commentaries

Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

For he took away the altars of the strange [gods], and the high places, and brake down the images, and cut down the (a) groves:
(a) Which were planted contrary to the Law, (Deuteronomy 16:21).

For he took away the altars of the strange gods,.... Or of a strange people, of the Zidonians, Ammonites, and Moabites, which had remained from the times of Solomon, and which he built for his wives, 1-Kings 11:7.
and the high places; built for idols; for as for those on which the true God was worshipped, they were not removed in his days, 1-Kings 15:14.
and brake down the images: or statues, or pillars, erected to the honour of idols, and on which the images of them were placed:
and cut down the groves; in the midst of which they stood.

brake down the images--of Baal (see on 2-Chronicles 34:4; Leviticus 26:30).
cut down the groves--rather, "Asherim."

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