2 Chronicles 14:3

3 for he removed ¹the foreign altars and ²high places, tore down the sacred pillars, cut down the ³Asherim,

2 Chronicles 14:3 Meaning and Commentary

2 Chronicles 14:3

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 1 Kings 11:8 )

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.

2 Chronicles 14:3 In-Context

1 So Abijah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David, and his son Asa became king in his place. The land was undisturbed for ten years during his days.

2 Asa did good and right in the sight of the LORD his God,

3 for he removed the foreign altars and high places, tore down the sacred pillars, cut down the Asherim,

4 and commanded Judah to seek the LORD God of their fathers and to observe the law and the commandment.

5 He also removed the high places and the incense altars from all the cities of Judah. And the kingdom was undisturbed under him.

Cross References

• 1. Deuteronomy 7:5
• 2. 1 Kings 15:12-14
• 3. Exodus 34:13

Footnotes

• [a]. I.e. wooden symbols of a female deity