2 Chronicles 14:3

3 He removed the pagan altars and the high places. He shattered their sacred pillars and chopped down their Asherah poles.^[a]

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 Abijah rested with his fathers and was buried in the city of David. His son Asa became king in his place. During his reign the land experienced peace for 10 years.

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

3 He removed the pagan altars and the high places. He shattered their sacred pillars and chopped down their Asherah poles.

4 He told [the people of] Judah to seek the Lord God of their ancestors and to carry out the instruction and the command.

5 He also removed the high places and the incense altars from all the cities of Judah, and the kingdom experienced peace under him.

Footnotes

• [a]. 1 Kg 15:11-12