2 Kings 18:4

He removed the high places. He broke the stone pillars to bits, and cut down the Asherah poles. The brass snake that Moses had made was crushed to powder at his command, because in those days the children of Israel had offerings burned before it, and he gave it the name Nehushtan.

2 Chronicles 31:1

When this ended, all Israel who were present went out to the cities of Judah, broke the pillars in pieces, cut down the Asherim and pulled down the high places and the altars throughout all Judah and Benjamin, Ephraim and Manasseh. They destroyed them all. Then all the sons of Israel returned to their cities, each to his possession.

Numbers 21:8-9

Jehovah said to Moses: Make a snake and put it on a pole. Anyone who is bitten can look at it and live.

Exodus 23:24

Do not worship or serve their gods or follow their practices. You must destroy their gods and crush their sacred stones.

Leviticus 26:30

I will destroy your worship sites. I will cut down your incense altars and pile your dead bodies on top of your dead idols. I will view you with disgust.

Deuteronomy 7:5

Deal with them in this way: Destroy their altars and break down their sacred pillars. Cut down their idols and burn them with fire.

Deuteronomy 12:2-3

Destroy all the places where the nations you dispossess serve their gods, on the high mountains and on the hills and under every green tree.

Judges 6:25

That night Jehovah told Gideon: Take your father's bull and another seven year old bull, tear down your father's altar to Baal, and cut down the symbol of the goddess Asherah, that is beside it.

Judges 6:28

The people in town got up early the next morning. They found that the altar to Baal and the symbol of Asherah had been cut down. The second bull had been burned on the altar that was built there.

1 Kings 3:2-3

A Temple had not yet been built for Jehovah. The people were still offering sacrifices at many different altars.

1 Kings 15:12-14

He banished perverted persons from the land. He removed those used for sex purposes in the worship of the gods. He removed all the idols his fathers had made.

1 Kings 22:43

Like his father Asa before him, he did what was right in the sight of Jehovah. However the places of worship were not destroyed, and the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense there.

2 Kings 12:3

The high places were not taken away. The people continued making offerings and burning them in the high places.

2 Kings 14:4

Still the high places were not taken away. The people continued making offerings and burning them in the high places.

2 Kings 15:4

He did not take away the high places. The people still continued to make and burn offerings in the high places.

2 Kings 15:35

But he did not take away the high places. The people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places. He was the builder of the higher gate of the Temple of Jehovah.

2 Kings 16:15

King Ahaz gave orders to Urijah the priest: Make the morning burned offering and the evening meal offering and the king's burned offering and meal offering, with the burned offerings of all the people and their meal offerings and drink offerings, on the great altar. Put on it all the blood of the burned offerings and of the animals that are offered. But the bronze altar will be for my use to get directions from Jehovah.

2 Kings 18:22

If you say to me: We trust in Jehovah our God, is he not the one whose high places and altars have been taken away by Hezekiah. For he told Judah and Jerusalem that worship may only be given before this altar in Jerusalem?

2 Kings 23:4

Then the king ordered the high priest Hilkiah, the priests who served under Hilkiah, and the doorkeepers to remove from Jehovah's Temple all utensils that had been made for Baal, Asherah, and the entire army of heaven. Josiah burned the utensils outside Jerusalem. It was in an open field near the Kidron Brook. Then he carried their ashes to Bethel.

2 Chronicles 19:3

Regardless of this, there is some good in you. You have removed all the symbols of the goddess Asherah that people worshiped. You have tried to follow God's will.

2 Chronicles 33:3

He rebuilt the illegal places of worship that his father Hezekiah had torn down. He set up altars dedicated to other gods such as the Baals. He erected a pole dedicated to the goddess Asherah as King Ahab of Israel had done. Manasseh, like Ahab, worshiped and served the entire army of heaven.

Psalm 78:58

They provoked him to anger (indignation) because of their illegal worship sites. They made him furious because they worshiped idols.

Ezekiel 20:28-29

I brought them to the land I had promised to give them. When they saw the high hills and green trees, they offered sacrifices at all of them. They made me angry by the sacrifices they burned and by the wine they brought as offerings.

John 3:14-15

As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so the Son of man must also be lifted up.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan.

The brasen serpent

Unto those days

General references

Bible References

Removed

2 Kings 12:3
The high places were not taken away. The people continued making offerings and burning them in the high places.
2 Kings 14:4
Still the high places were not taken away. The people continued making offerings and burning them in the high places.
2 Kings 15:4
He did not take away the high places. The people still continued to make and burn offerings in the high places.
Leviticus 26:30
I will destroy your worship sites. I will cut down your incense altars and pile your dead bodies on top of your dead idols. I will view you with disgust.
1 Kings 3:2
A Temple had not yet been built for Jehovah. The people were still offering sacrifices at many different altars.
1 Kings 15:14
The high places were not taken away. Nevertheless Asa's heart was true to Jehovah all his life.
1 Kings 22:43
Like his father Asa before him, he did what was right in the sight of Jehovah. However the places of worship were not destroyed, and the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense there.
Psalm 78:58
They provoked him to anger (indignation) because of their illegal worship sites. They made him furious because they worshiped idols.
Ezekiel 20:28
I brought them to the land I had promised to give them. When they saw the high hills and green trees, they offered sacrifices at all of them. They made me angry by the sacrifices they burned and by the wine they brought as offerings.

Brake

2 Kings 23:4
Then the king ordered the high priest Hilkiah, the priests who served under Hilkiah, and the doorkeepers to remove from Jehovah's Temple all utensils that had been made for Baal, Asherah, and the entire army of heaven. Josiah burned the utensils outside Jerusalem. It was in an open field near the Kidron Brook. Then he carried their ashes to Bethel.
Deuteronomy 7:5
Deal with them in this way: Destroy their altars and break down their sacred pillars. Cut down their idols and burn them with fire.
Deuteronomy 12:2
Destroy all the places where the nations you dispossess serve their gods, on the high mountains and on the hills and under every green tree.
Judges 6:25
That night Jehovah told Gideon: Take your father's bull and another seven year old bull, tear down your father's altar to Baal, and cut down the symbol of the goddess Asherah, that is beside it.
1 Kings 15:12
He banished perverted persons from the land. He removed those used for sex purposes in the worship of the gods. He removed all the idols his fathers had made.
2 Chronicles 19:3
Regardless of this, there is some good in you. You have removed all the symbols of the goddess Asherah that people worshiped. You have tried to follow God's will.
2 Chronicles 31:1
When this ended, all Israel who were present went out to the cities of Judah, broke the pillars in pieces, cut down the Asherim and pulled down the high places and the altars throughout all Judah and Benjamin, Ephraim and Manasseh. They destroyed them all. Then all the sons of Israel returned to their cities, each to his possession.
2 Chronicles 33:3
He rebuilt the illegal places of worship that his father Hezekiah had torn down. He set up altars dedicated to other gods such as the Baals. He erected a pole dedicated to the goddess Asherah as King Ahab of Israel had done. Manasseh, like Ahab, worshiped and served the entire army of heaven.

The brasen serpent

Numbers 21:8
Jehovah said to Moses: Make a snake and put it on a pole. Anyone who is bitten can look at it and live.
John 3:14
As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so the Son of man must also be lifted up.

Unto those days

2 Kings 16:15
King Ahaz gave orders to Urijah the priest: Make the morning burned offering and the evening meal offering and the king's burned offering and meal offering, with the burned offerings of all the people and their meal offerings and drink offerings, on the great altar. Put on it all the blood of the burned offerings and of the animals that are offered. But the bronze altar will be for my use to get directions from Jehovah.

General references

2 Kings 12:3
The high places were not taken away. The people continued making offerings and burning them in the high places.