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1 Kings 15 13-1 Kings 15 24
He also removed his grandmother Maacah from being queen mother because she had made an obscene image of Asherah. Asa chopped down her obscene image and burned it in the Kidron Valley.The high places were not taken away; but Asa’s heart was completely devoted to the Lord his entire life.He brought his father’s consecrated gifts and his own consecrated gifts into the Lord’s temple: silver, gold, and utensils.There was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel throughout their reigns.Israel’s King Baasha went to war against Judah. He built Ramah in order to deny anyone access to Judah’s King Asa.So Asa withdrew all the silver and gold that remained in the treasuries of the Lord’s temple and the treasuries of the royal palace and put it into the hands of his servants. Then King Asa sent them to Ben-hadad son of Tabrimmon son of Hezion king of Aram who lived in Damascus, saying,“ There is a treaty between me and you, between my father and your father. Look, I have sent you a gift of silver and gold. Go and break your treaty with Baasha king of Israel so that he will withdraw from me.”Ben-hadad listened to King Asa and sent the commanders of his armies against the cities of Israel. He attacked Ijon, Dan, Abel-beth-maacah, all Chinnereth, and the whole land of Naphtali.When Baasha heard about it, he quit building Ramah and stayed in Tirzah.Then King Asa gave a command to everyone without exception in Judah, and they carried away the stones of Ramah and the timbers Baasha had built it with. Then King Asa built Geba of Benjamin and Mizpah with them.The rest of all the events of Asa’s reign, along with all his might, all his accomplishments, and the cities he built, are written in the Historical Record of Judah’s Kings. But in his old age he developed a disease in his feet.Then Asa rested with his fathers and was buried in the city of his ancestor David. His son Jehoshaphat became king in his place.
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1 Kings 15 2
and reigned three years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Maacah daughter of Abishalom.
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Exodus 34:13
Instead, you must tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, and chop down their Asherah poles.
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1 Kings 15 10
and reigned 41 years in Jerusalem. His grandmother’s name was Maacah daughter of Abishalom.
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2 Kings 23 15
He even tore down the altar at Bethel and the high place that Jeroboam son of Nebat, who caused Israel to sin, had made. Then he burned the high place, crushed it to dust, and burned the Asherah.
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2 Kings 23 6
He brought out the Asherah pole from the Lord’s temple to the Kidron Valley outside Jerusalem. He burned it at the Kidron Valley, beat it to dust, and threw its dust on the graves of the common people.
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2 Chronicles 34 7
He tore down the altars, and he smashed the Asherah poles and the carved images to powder. He chopped down all the incense altars throughout the land of Israel and returned to Jerusalem.
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Zechariah 13:3
If a man still prophesies, his father and his mother who bore him will say to him: You cannot remain alive because you have spoken falsely in the name of Yahweh. When he prophesies, his father and his mother who bore him will pierce him through.
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Exodus 32:20
Then he took the calf they had made, burned it up, and ground it to powder. He scattered the powder over the surface of the water and forced the Israelites to drink the water.
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Exodus 32:27-28
He told them,“ This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says,‘ Every man fasten his sword to his side; go back and forth through the camp from entrance to entrance, and each of you kill his brother, his friend, and his neighbor.’”The Levites did as Moses commanded, and about 3,000 men fell dead that day among the people.
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2 Chronicles 14 2-2 Chronicles 14 5
Asa did what was good and right in the sight of the Lord his God.He removed the pagan altars and the high places. He shattered their sacred pillars and chopped down their Asherah poles.He told the people of Judah to seek the Lord God of their ancestors and to carry out the instruction and the commands.He also removed the high places and the incense altars from all the cities of Judah, and the kingdom experienced peace under him.
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Deuteronomy 13:6-8
“ If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son or daughter, or the wife you embrace, or your closest friend secretly entices you, saying,‘ Let us go and worship other gods’— which neither you nor your fathers have known,any of the gods of the peoples around you, near you or far from you, from one end of the earth to the other—you must not yield to him or listen to him. Show him no pity, and do not spare him or shield him.
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Deuteronomy 7:5
Instead, this is what you are to do to them: tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, cut down their Asherah poles, and burn up their carved images.
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2 Kings 23 12
The king tore down the altars that were on the roof— Ahaz’s upper chamber that the kings of Judah had made— and the altars that Manasseh had made in the two courtyards of the Lord’s temple. Then he smashed them there and threw their dust into the Kidron Valley.
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2 Corinthians 5 16
From now on, then, we do not know anyone in a purely human way. Even if we have known Christ in a purely human way, yet now we no longer know Him in this way.
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Deuteronomy 9:21
I took the sinful calf you had made, burned it up, and crushed it, thoroughly grinding it to powder as fine as dust. Then I threw it into the stream that came down from the mountain.
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Deuteronomy 33:9
He said about his father and mother,“ I do not regard them.” He disregarded his brothers and didn’t acknowledge his sons, for they kept Your word and maintained Your covenant.
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Mark 3:31-35
Then His mother and His brothers came, and standing outside, they sent word to Him and called Him.A crowd was sitting around Him and told Him,“ Look, Your mother, Your brothers, and Your sisters are outside asking for You.”He replied to them,“ Who are My mother and My brothers?”And looking about at those who were sitting in a circle around Him, He said,“ Here are My mother and My brothers!Whoever does the will of God is My brother and sister and mother.”
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Mark 3:21
When His family heard this, they set out to restrain Him, because they said,“ He’s out of His mind.”
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Leviticus 26:30
I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars, and heap your dead bodies on the lifeless bodies of your idols; I will reject you.
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Deuteronomy 7:25-26
You must burn up the carved images of their gods. Don’t covet the silver and gold on the images and take it for yourself, or else you will be ensnared by it, for it is abhorrent to the Lord your God.You must not bring any abhorrent thing into your house, or you will be set apart for destruction like it. You are to utterly detest and abhor it, because it is set apart for destruction.