2 Chronicles 32:12

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Hath not the same Hezekiah taken away his high places and his altars, and commanded Judah and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall worship before one altar, and burn incense upon it?

Hath not

2 Chronicles 31:1

2 Kings 18:4

Isaiah 36:7

Ye shall worship

Deuteronomy 12:13

One altar

1 Kings 7:48

Bible References

Hath not

Now when all of this was finished, all Israel who were present went out to the cities of Judah, and smashed the [pagan] pillars (obelisks, memorial stones) in pieces, cut down the Asherim (wooden symbols of a female deity), and tore down the high places and the altars [of idolatry] throughout all Judah and Benjamin, as well as in Ephraim and Manasseh, until they had destroyed them all. Then all the sons (descendants) of Israel returned to their own cities, each to his own property.

He removed the high places [of pagan worship], broke down the images (memorial stones) and cut down the Asherim. He also crushed to pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made, for until those days the Israelites had burned incense to it; and it was called Nehushtan [a bronze sculpture].

But if you say to me, ‘We trust in and rely on the Lord our God,’ is it not He whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has taken away, saying to Judah and to Jerusalem, ‘You shall worship before this altar’?

Ye shall worship

“Be careful that you do not offer your burnt offerings in every [cultic] place you see,

One altar

Then Solomon made an altar of bronze, twenty cubits in length, twenty cubits in width, and ten cubits in height.

“And you shall make the altar [for burnt offerings] of acacia wood, five cubits long and five cubits wide; the altar shall be square, and its height shall be three cubits.

“You shall make an altar upon which to burn incense; you shall make it of acacia wood.

He put the golden altar [of incense] in the Tent of Meeting in front of the veil;

Solomon made all the [other] furniture which was in the house of the Lord: the [incense] altar of gold; the table of gold on which was the bread of the Presence;