2 Chronicles 33:3

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2 Chronicles 33:3

He rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had torn down and reestablished the altars for the Baals. He made Asherah poles, and he worshiped the whole heavenly host and served them.

Deuteronomy 16:21

“Do not set up an Asherah of any kind of wood next to the altar you will build for the Lord your God,

When all this was completed, all Israel who had attended went out to the cities of Judah and broke up the sacred pillars, chopped down the Asherah poles, and tore down the high places and altars throughout Judah and Benjamin, as well as in Ephraim and Manasseh, to the last one. Then all the Israelites returned to their cities, each to his own possession.

Deuteronomy 17:3

and has gone to worship other gods by bowing down to the sun, moon, or all the stars in the sky—which I have forbidden—

2 Kings 18:4

He removed the high places, shattered the sacred pillars, and cut down the Asherah poles. He broke into pieces the bronze snake that Moses made, for the Israelites burned incense to it up to that time. He called it Nehushtan.

2 Kings 23:5-6

Then he did away with the idolatrous priests the kings of Judah had appointed to burn incense at the high places in the cities of Judah and in the areas surrounding Jerusalem. They had burned incense to Baal, and to the sun, moon, constellations, and the whole heavenly host.

2 Chronicles 30:14

They proceeded to take away the altars that were in Jerusalem, and they took away the incense altars and threw them into the Kidron Valley.

Deuteronomy 4:19

When you look to the heavens and see the sun, moon, and stars—all the array of heaven—do not be led astray to bow down and worship them. The Lord your God has provided them for all people everywhere under heaven.

Judges 2:11-13

The Israelites did what was evil in the Lord’s sight. They worshiped the Baals

1 Kings 14:23

They also built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree;

2 Kings 21:3

He rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed and reestablished the altars for Baal. He made an Asherah, as King Ahab of Israel had done; he also worshiped the whole heavenly host and served them.

2 Kings 23:11

He did away with the horses that the kings of Judah had dedicated to the sun. They had been at the entrance of the Lord’s temple in the precincts by the chamber of Nathan-melech the court official, and he burned up the chariots of the sun.

2 Chronicles 28:2-4

for he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel and made cast images of the Baals.

2 Chronicles 32:12

Didn’t Hezekiah himself remove His high places and His altars and say to Judah and Jerusalem, “You must worship before one altar, and you must burn incense on it”?

Ecclesiastes 2:19

And who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will take over all my work that I labored at skillfully under the sun. This too is futile.

Ecclesiastes 9:18

Wisdom is better than weapons of war,
but one sinner can destroy much good.

Jeremiah 8:2

They will be exposed to the sun, the moon, and the whole heavenly host, which they have loved, served, followed, consulted, and worshiped. Their bones will not be collected and buried but will become like manure on the surface of the soil.

Jeremiah 17:2

while their children remember their altars
and their Asherah poles, by the green trees
on the high hills—

Jeremiah 19:13

The houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah will become impure like that place Topheth—all the houses on whose rooftops they have burned incense to the whole heavenly host and poured out drink offerings to other gods.”

Zephaniah 1:5

those who bow in worship on the rooftops
to the heavenly host;
those who bow and pledge loyalty to the Lord
but also pledge loyalty to Milcom;

Acts 7:42

Then God turned away and gave them up to worship the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets:

House of Israel, did you bring Me offerings and sacrifices
40 years in the wilderness?

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Summary

2 Chronicles 33:3

For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down, and he reared up altars for Baalim, and made groves, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.

He built again

Ecclesiastes 2:19

Ecclesiastes 9:18

Which hezekiah

2 Kings 21:3

He reared

2 Chronicles 28:2

Judges 2:11

Made groves

Deuteronomy 16:21

1 Kings 14:23

Jeremiah 17:2

The host

Acts 7:42

General references

Deuteronomy 16:21

Bible References

He built again

And who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will take over all my work that I labored at skillfully under the sun. This too is futile.

Wisdom is better than weapons of war,
but one sinner can destroy much good.

Which hezekiah

They proceeded to take away the altars that were in Jerusalem, and they took away the incense altars and threw them into the Kidron Valley.

Didn’t Hezekiah himself remove His high places and His altars and say to Judah and Jerusalem, “You must worship before one altar, and you must burn incense on it”?

He reared

for he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel and made cast images of the Baals.

The Israelites did what was evil in the Lord’s sight. They worshiped the Baals

Made groves

“Do not set up an Asherah of any kind of wood next to the altar you will build for the Lord your God,

They also built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree;

while their children remember their altars
and their Asherah poles, by the green trees
on the high hills—

The host

and has gone to worship other gods by bowing down to the sun, moon, or all the stars in the sky—which I have forbidden—

those who bow in worship on the rooftops
to the heavenly host;
those who bow and pledge loyalty to the Lord

but also pledge loyalty to Milcom;

General references

“Do not set up an Asherah of any kind of wood next to the altar you will build for the Lord your God,