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2 Chronicles 31 1
When all this was completed, all Israel who had attended went out to the cities of Judah and broke up the sacred pillars, chopped down the Asherah poles, and tore down the high places and altars throughout Judah and Benjamin, as well as in Ephraim and Manasseh, to the last one. Then all the Israelites returned to their cities, each to his own possession.
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Numbers 21:8-9
Then the LORD said to Moses,“ Make a snake image and mount it on a pole. When anyone who is bitten looks at it, he will recover.”So Moses made a bronze snake and mounted it on a pole. Whenever someone was bitten, and he looked at the bronze snake, he recovered.
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Leviticus 26:30
I will destroy your high places, cut down your shrines, and heap your lifeless bodies on the lifeless bodies of your idols; I will reject you.
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Deuteronomy 12:2-3
Destroy completely all the places where the nations that you are driving out worship their gods— on the high mountains, on the hills, and under every green tree.Tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, burn their Asherah poles, cut down the carved images of their gods, and wipe out their names from every place.
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1 Kings 3 2-1 Kings 3 3
However, the people were sacrificing on the high places, because until that time a temple for the LORD’s name had not been built.Solomon loved the LORD by walking in the statutes of his father David, but he also sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.
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1 Kings 22 43
He walked in all the ways of his father Asa; he did not turn away from them but did what was right in the LORD’s sight. However, the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.
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Judges 6:28
When the men of the city got up in the morning, they found Baal’s altar torn down, the Asherah pole beside it cut down, and the second bull offered up on the altar that had been built.
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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 their carved images.
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1 Kings 15 12-1 Kings 15 14
He banished the male cult prostitutes from the land and removed all of the idols that his ancestors had made.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 was wholeheartedly devoted to the LORD his entire life.
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Judges 6:25
On that very night the LORD said to him,“ Take your father’s young bull and a second bull seven years old. Then tear down the altar of Baal that belongs to your father and cut down the Asherah pole beside it.
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Exodus 23:24
Do not bow in worship to their gods, and do not serve them. Do not imitate their practices. Instead, demolish them and smash their sacred pillars to pieces.
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2 Kings 18 22
Suppose you say to me,“ We rely on the LORD our God.” Isn’t he the one whose high places and altars Hezekiah has removed, saying to Judah and to Jerusalem,“ You must worship at this altar in Jerusalem”?’
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2 Kings 12 3
Yet the high places were not taken away; the people continued sacrificing and burning incense on the high places.
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John 3:14-15
“ Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up,so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life.
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2 Kings 16 15
Then King Ahaz commanded the priest Uriah,“ Offer on the great altar the morning burnt offering, the evening grain offering, and the king’s burnt offering and his grain offering. Also offer the burnt offering of all the people of the land, their grain offering, and their drink offerings. Splatter on the altar all the blood of the burnt offering and all the blood of sacrifice. The bronze altar will be for me to seek guidance.”
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2 Chronicles 19 3
However, some good is found in you, for you have eradicated the Asherah poles from the land and have determined in your heart to seek God.”
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2 Chronicles 33 3
He rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had torn down and reestablished the altars for the Baals. He made Asherah poles, and he bowed in worship to all the stars in the sky and served them.
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2 Kings 15 4
Yet the high places were not taken away; the people continued sacrificing and burning incense on the high places.
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2 Kings 15 35
Yet the high places were not taken away; the people continued sacrificing and burning incense on the high places. Jotham built the Upper Gate of the LORD’s temple.
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Ezekiel 20:28-29
When I brought them into the land that I swore to give them and they saw any high hill or leafy tree, they offered their sacrifices and presented their offensive offerings there. They also sent up their pleasing aromas and poured out their drink offerings there.So I asked them,“ What is this high place you are going to?” And it is still called Bamah today.’
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2 Kings 14 4
Yet the high places were not taken away, and the people continued sacrificing and burning incense on the high places.
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2 Kings 23 4
Then the king commanded the high priest Hilkiah and the priests of the second rank and the doorkeepers to bring out of the LORD’s sanctuary all the articles made for Baal, Asherah, and all the stars in the sky. He burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron and carried their ashes to Bethel.
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Psalms 78:58
They enraged him with their high places and provoked his jealousy with their carved images.