2 Chronicles 32:12

Sennacherib's Invasion Of Judah

¹¹ Is not Hezekiah urging you to give you [up] to die by starvation and thirst, saying, "Yahweh our God will save us from the hand of the king of Assyria"? ¹² Has not Hezekiah himself removed his high places and his altars and said to Judah and to Jerusalem, saying, "You must bow down before one altar and upon it you must make offerings"? ¹³ Do you not know what I have done, I and my ancestors, to all the peoples of the lands? Were the gods of the nations of all the lands at all able to save their land from my hand?

Burn Incense

High Place

High Places

Judah and Jerusalem

Offer Sacrifice

Offer Sacrifices

Baal

Hezekiah

Jerusalem

Judah

2 Chronicles 31:1

And when all this was finished, all Israel who were found in the cities of Judah went out and shattered the stone pillars, cut down the Asherahs, and destroyed the high places and the altars from all Judah, Benjamin, Ephraim, and Manasseh {to the very last one}. Then all the Israelites returned, each to his own property [and] to their cities.

Exodus 27:1-8

"And you will make the altar of acacia wood, five cubits long and five cubits wide; the altar will be square, and its height [will be] three cubits.

Exodus 30:1-6

"And you will make an altar [for] burning incense; you will make it of acacia wood,

Exodus 40:26-29

And he placed the gold altar in the tent of assembly before the curtain.

Deuteronomy 12:13-14

"Take care for yourself so that you do not offer your burnt offerings at [just] any place that you happen to see,

Deuteronomy 12:26-27

Only your holy objects {that are yours} and your votive gifts you must carry and you must bring to the place that Yahweh will choose.

1 Kings 7:48

Solomon also made all of the vessels which [were] in the house of Yahweh: the golden altar and the golden table on which [was] the bread of the presence;

2 Kings 18:4

He removed the high places, and he smashed the stone pillars; he cut down the poles of Asherah worship and demolished the bronze serpent which Moses had made, for up to those days the {Israelites} were offering incense to it and called it Nehushtan.

2 Kings 18:22

But if you say to me, 'On Yahweh our God we trust,' [is] it not he whose high places and altars Hezekiah removed, and he had said to Judah and to Jerusalem, 'In the presence of this altar you shall bow down [only] in Jerusalem?'

2 Chronicles 4:1

And he made an altar of bronze, twenty cubits [was] its length, and twenty cubits [was] its width, and ten cubits [was] its height.

Isaiah 36:7

And if you say to me, 'We trust in Yahweh our God,' [was it] not he whose high places and altars Hezekiah removed? And he said to Judah and to Jerusalem, 'You shall bow down in the {presence} of this altar.'"