Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
And also concerning Maachah the mother of Asa the king, he removed her from being queen, because she had made an idol in a grove: and Asa cut down her idol, and stamped it, and burnt it at the brook Kidron.
Maachah
The mother
He removed
Bible References
Maachah
1 Kings 15:13 He also removed Maacah his mother from being queen mother, because she had made a horrid image as an Asherah; and Asa cut down her horrid image and burned it at the brook Kidron.
The mother
1 Kings 15:2
He reigned three years in Jerusalem; and his mother’s name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom.
He removed
2 Chronicles 14:3
for he removed the foreign altars and high places, tore down the sacred pillars, cut down the Asherim,
Exodus 32:27
He said to them, “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, ‘Every man of you put his sword upon his thigh, and go back and forth from gate to gate in the camp, and kill every man his brother, and every man his friend, and every man his neighbor.’”
Deuteronomy 13:6
“If your brother, your mother’s son, or your son or daughter, or the wife you cherish, or your friend who is as your own soul, entice you secretly, saying, ‘Let us go and serve other gods’ (whom neither you nor your fathers have known,
Deuteronomy 33:9 Who said of his father and his mother,
‘I did not consider them’;
And he did not acknowledge his brothers,
Nor did he regard his own sons,
Forthey observed Your word,
And kept Your covenant.
‘I did not consider them’;
And he did not acknowledge his brothers,
Nor did he regard his own sons,
For
And kept Your covenant.
Zechariah 13:3
And if anyone still prophesies, then his father and mother who gave birth to him will say to him, ‘You shall not live, for you have spoken falsely in the name of the Lord’; and his father and mother who gave birth to him will pierce him through when he prophesies.
Mark 3:21
When His own people heard of this, they went out to take custody of Him; for they were saying, “He has lost His senses.”
2 Corinthians 5:16
Therefore from now on we recognize no one according to the flesh; even though we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know Him in this way no longer.
Cut down
2 Chronicles 14:3
for he removed the foreign altars and high places, tore down the sacred pillars, cut down the Asherim,
2 Chronicles 34:7
he also tore down the altars and beat the Asherim and the carved images into powder, and chopped down all the incense altars throughout the land of Israel. Then he returned to Jerusalem.
Exodus 32:20 He took the calf which they had made and burned it with fire, and ground it to powder, and scattered it over the surface of the water and made the sons of Israel drink it.
Leviticus 26:30
I then will destroy your high places, and cut down your incense altars, and heap your remains on the remains of your idols, for My soul shall abhor you.
Deuteronomy 7:5
But thus you shall do to them: you shall tear down their altars, and smash their sacred pillars, and hew down their Asherim, and burn their graven images with fire.
Deuteronomy 9:21 I took your sinful thing, the calf which you had made, and burned it with fire and crushed it, grinding it very small until it was as fine as dust; and I threw its dust into the brook that came down from the mountain.
1 Kings 15:14 But the high places were not taken away; nevertheless the heart of Asa was wholly devoted to the Lord all his days.
2 Kings 23:6
He brought out the Asherah from the house of the Lord outside Jerusalem to the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and ground it to dust, and threw its dust on the graves of the common people.