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Summary

For he took away the altars of the strange gods, and the high places, and brake down the images, and cut down the groves:

Bible References

For he took

Deuteronomy 7:5
Instead, this is what you must do to them: You must tear down their altars, shatter their sacred pillars, cut down their sacred Asherah poles, and burn up their idols.
1 Kings 11:7
Furthermore, on the hill east of Jerusalem Solomon built a high place for the detestable Moabite god Chemosh and for the detestable Ammonite god Milcom.
1 Kings 14:22
Judah did evil in the sight of the Lord. They made him more jealous by their sins than their ancestors had done.

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