2 Kings 18:4

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

Numbers 21:8

John 3:14

Unto those days

2 Kings 16:15

General references

2 Kings 12:3

Bible References

Removed

But the high places were not taken away; the people went on making offerings and burning them in the high places.

But still the high places were not taken away; the people went on making offerings and burning them in the high places.

But he did not take away the high places, and the people still went on making offerings and burning them in the high places.

And I will send destruction on your high places, overturning your perfume altars, and will put your dead bodies on your broken images, and my soul will be turned from you in disgust.

But all this time the people were making their offerings in the high places, because no house had been put up to the name of the Lord till those days.

The high places, however, were not taken away: but still the heart of Asa was true to the Lord all his life.

He did as Asa his father had done, not turning away from it, but doing what was right in the eyes of the Lord; but the high places were not taken away: the people went on making offerings and burning them in the high places.

They made him angry with their high places; moving him to wrath with their images.

For when I had taken them into the land which I made an oath to give to them, then they saw every high hill and every branching tree and made their offerings there, moving me to wrath by their offerings; and there the sweet smell of their offerings went up and their drink offerings were drained out.

Brake

Then the king gave orders to Hilkiah, the chief priest, and to the priests of the second order, and to the keepers of the door, to take out of the house of the Lord all the vessels made for Baal and for the Asherah and for all the stars of heaven; and he had them burned outside Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and took the dust of them to Beth-el

But this is what you are to do to them: their altars are to be pulled down and their pillars broken, and their holy trees cut down and their images burned with fire.

You are to give up to the curse all those places where the nations, whom you are driving out, gave worship to their gods, on the high mountains and the hills and under every green tree:

The same night the Lord said to him, Take ten men of your servants and an ox seven years old, and after pulling down the altar of Baal which is your father's, and cutting down the holy tree by its side,

Those used for sex purposes in the worship of the gods he sent out of the country, and he took away all the images which his fathers had made.

But still there is some good in you, for you have put away the wood pillars out of the land, and have given your heart to the worship of God.

Now when all this was over, all the men of Israel who were present went out into the towns of Judah, causing the stone pillars to be broken up and the wood pillars to be cut down, pulling down the high places and the altars in all Judah and Benjamin, as well as in Ephraim and Manasseh, till all were gone. Then all the children of Israel went back to their towns, every man to his property.

For he put up again the high places which had been pulled down by his father Hezekiah; and he made altars for the Baals, and pillars of wood, and was a worshipper and servant of all the stars of heaven;

The brasen serpent

And the Lord said to Moses, Make an image of a snake and put it on a rod, and anyone who has been wounded by the snakes, looking on it will be made well.

As the snake was lifted up by Moses in the waste land, even so it is necessary for the Son of man to be lifted up:

Unto those days

And King Ahaz gave orders to Urijah the priest, saying, 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, and put on it all the blood of the burned offerings and of the beasts which are offered; but the brass altar will be for my use to get directions from the Lord.

General references

But the high places were not taken away; the people went on making offerings and burning them in the high places.