Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
For he took away the altars of strange gods and the high places, and had the upright stones broken and the wood pillars cut down;
New American Standard Bible
for he removed
King James Version
For he took away the altars of the strange gods, and the high places, and brake down the images, and cut down the groves:
Holman Bible
He removed the pagan altars and the high places. He shattered their sacred pillars and chopped down their Asherah poles.
International Standard Version
by removing the foreign altars and high places, tearing down the sacred pillars, cutting down the Asherim, and
A Conservative Version
For he took away the foreign altars, and the high places, and broke down the pillars, and hewed down the Asherim,
American Standard Version
for he took away the foreign altars, and the high places, and brake down the pillars, and hewed down the Asherim,
Amplified
He removed the foreign altars and high places and tore down the [pagan] pillars (obelisks, memorial stones), and cut to pieces the Asherim [the symbols of the goddess Asherah].
Darby Translation
and he took away the altars of the strange gods and the high places, and broke the columns, and cut down the Asherahs;
Julia Smith Translation
And he will remove the altars of the stranger, and the heights, and break the pillars, and cut down the images:
King James 2000
For he took away the altars of the foreign gods, and the high places, and broke down the images, and cut down the idol poles:
Lexham Expanded Bible
He removed the foreign altars and high places, broke down the stone pillars, and cut down the Asherahs.
Modern King James verseion
For he took away the altars of the strange gods, and the high places, and broke down the images, and cut down the Asherahs.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
and took away the altars of strangers and the hill altars, and brake the Images and cut down the groves,
NET Bible
He removed the pagan altars and the high places, smashed the sacred pillars, and cut down the Asherah poles.
New Heart English Bible
for he took away the foreign altars, and the high places, and broke down the pillars, and cut down the Asherim,
The Emphasized Bible
and took away the foreign altars, and the high places, - and brake in pieces the pillars, and cut in twain the Sacred Stems;
Webster
For he took away the altars of the strange gods, and the high places, and broke down the images, and cut down the groves:
World English Bible
for he took away the foreign altars, and the high places, and broke down the pillars, and cut down the Asherim,
Youngs Literal Translation
and turneth aside the altars of the stranger, and the high places, and breaketh the standing-pillars, and cutteth down the shrines,
Themes
High places » Destroyed by » Asa, partially
Iconoclasm » Destroyed by » Asa
Religious zeal » Instances of » Asa
Rulers' » Righteous » Instances of » Asa » Abolishing » Sodomy
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Word Count of 20 Translations in 2 Chronicles 14:3
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Reign Of Asa In Judah
2 And Asa did what was good and right in the eyes of the Lord his God; 3 For he took away the altars of strange gods and the high places, and had the upright stones broken and the wood pillars cut down; 4 And he made Judah go after the Lord, the God of their fathers, and keep his laws and his orders.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 7:5
But this is what you are to do to them: their altars are to be pulled down and their pillars broken, and their holy trees cut down and their images burned with fire.
Exodus 34:13
But their altars are to be overturned and their pillars broken and their images cut down:
1 Kings 15:12-14
Those used for sex purposes in the worship of the gods he sent out of the country, and he took away all the images which his fathers had made.
2 Kings 23:14
The stone pillars were broken to bits and the wood pillars cut down, and the places where they had been were made full of the bones of the dead
2 Chronicles 15:17
But the high places were not taken away out of Israel; but still the heart of Asa was true to the Lord all his life.
Leviticus 26:30
And I will send destruction on your high places, overturning your perfume altars, and will put your dead bodies on your broken images, and my soul will be turned from you in disgust.
Deuteronomy 7:25
The images of their gods are to be burned with fire: have no desire for the gold and silver on them, and do not take it for yourselves, for it will be a danger to you: it is a thing disgusting to the Lord your God:
Judges 6:25-28
The same night the Lord said to him, Take ten men of your servants and an ox seven years old, and after pulling down the altar of Baal which is your father's, and cutting down the holy tree by its side,
1 Kings 11:7-8
Then Solomon put up a high place for Chemosh, the disgusting god of Moab, in the mountain before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the disgusting god worshipped by the children of Ammon.
1 Kings 14:22-24
And Judah did evil in the eyes of the Lord, and made him more angry than their fathers had done by their sins.
2 Kings 18:4
He had the high places taken away, and the stone pillars broken to bits, and the Asherah cut down; and the brass snake which Moses had made was crushed to powder at his order, because in those days the children of Israel had offerings burned before it, and he gave it the name Nehushtan.
2 Kings 23:6
And he took the Asherah from the house of the Lord, outside Jerusalem to the stream Kidron, burning it by the stream and crushing it to dust, and he put the dust on the place where the bodies of the common people were put to rest.
2 Chronicles 34:4
He had the altars of the Baals broken down, while he himself was present; and the sun-images which were placed on high over them he had cut down; and the pillars of wood and the metal images he had broken up and crushed to dust, dropping the dust over the resting-places of the dead who had made offerings to them.