2 Chronicles 14:3

3 He took away the foreign altars and the high places, broke down the pillars, hewed down the sacred poles,

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 ancestors, and they buried him in the city of David. His son Asa succeeded him. In his days the land had rest for ten years.

2 Asa did what was good and right in the sight of the Lord his God.

3 He took away the foreign altars and the high places, broke down the pillars, hewed down the sacred poles,

4 and commanded Judah to seek the Lord, the God of their ancestors, and to keep the law and the commandment.

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

Footnotes

• [a]. Heb [Asherim]