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.
Removed
Brake
The brasen serpent
Unto those days
General references
Bible References
Removed
2 Kings 12:3
Yet the high places were not taken away; the people continued sacrificing and burning incense on the high places.
2 Kings 14:4
Yet the high places were not taken away, and the people continued sacrificing and burning incense on the high places.
2 Kings 15:4
Yet the high places were not taken away; the people continued sacrificing and burning incense on the high places.
Leviticus 26:30
I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars, and heap your dead bodies on the lifeless bodies of your idols; I will reject you.
1 Kings 3:2
However, the people were sacrificing on the high places, because until that time a temple for the Lord’s name had not been built.
1 Kings 15:14
The high places were not taken away; but Asa’s heart was completely devoted to the Lord his entire life.
1 Kings 22:43
He walked in all the ways of his father Asa; he did not turn away from them but did what was right in the Lord’s sight. However, the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.
Psalm 78:58 They enraged Him with their high places
and provoked His jealousy with their carved images.
and provoked His jealousy with their carved images.
Ezekiel 20:28
When I brought them into the land that I swore to give them and they saw any high hill or leafy tree, they offered their sacrifices and presented their offensive offerings there. They also sent up their pleasing aromas and poured out their drink offerings there.
Brake
2 Kings 23:4
Then the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest and the priests of the second rank and the doorkeepers to bring out of the Lord’s temple all the articles made for Baal, Asherah, and the whole heavenly host. He burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron and carried their ashes to Bethel.
Deuteronomy 7:5
Instead, this is what you are to do to them: tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, cut down their Asherah poles, and burn up their carved images.
Deuteronomy 12:2
Destroy completely all the places where the nations that you are driving out worship their gods—on the high mountains, on the hills, and under every green tree.
Judges 6:25
On that very night the Lord said to him, “Take your father’s young bull and a second bull seven years old. Then tear down the altar of Baal that belongs to your father and cut down the Asherah pole beside it.
1 Kings 15:12
He banished the male cult prostitutes from the land and removed all of the idols that his fathers had made.
2 Chronicles 19:3
However, some good is found in you, for you have removed the Asherah poles from the land and have decided to seek God.”
2 Chronicles 31:1
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.
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.
The brasen serpent
Numbers 21:8
Then the Lord said to Moses, “Make a snake image and mount it on a pole. When anyone who is bitten looks at it, he will recover.”
John 3:14 Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up,
Unto those days
2 Kings 16:15
Then King Ahaz commanded Uriah the priest, “Offer on the great altar the morning burnt offering, the evening grain offering, and the king’s burnt offering and his grain offering. Also offer the burnt offering of all the people of the land, their grain offering, and their drink offerings. Sprinkle on the altar all the blood of the burnt offering and all the blood of sacrifice. The bronze altar will be for me to seek guidance.”
General references
2 Kings 12:3
Yet the high places were not taken away; the people continued sacrificing and burning incense on the high places.