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
Only, the high places were not removed: the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.
2 Kings 14:4
Only, the high places were not removed: the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.
2 Kings 15:4
Only, the high places were not removed: the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.
Leviticus 26:30
And I will lay waste your high places, and cut down your sun-pillars, and cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols; and my soul shall abhor you.
1 Kings 3:2
Only, the people sacrificed on the high places; for there was no house built to the name of Jehovah, until those days.
1 Kings 15:14
But the high places were not removed; only, Asa's heart was perfect with Jehovah all his days.
1 Kings 22:43
And he walked in all the way of Asa his father; he turned not aside from it, doing what was right in the sight of Jehovah. Only, the high places were not removed: the people offered and burned incense still on the high places.
Psalm 78:58
And they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.
Ezekiel 20:28
When I had brought them into the land which I had lifted up my hand to give unto them, then they saw every high hill and all the thick trees, and they offered there their sacrifices, and there they presented the provocation of their offering; and there they placed their sweet savour, and there poured out their drink-offerings.

Brake

2 Kings 23:4
And the king commanded Hilkijah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the doorkeepers, to bring forth out of the temple of Jehovah all the vessels that had been made for Baal, and for the Asherah, and for all the host of the heavens; and he burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and carried the ashes of them to Bethel.
Deuteronomy 7:5
But thus shall ye deal with them: ye shall break down their altars, and shatter their statues, and hew down their Asherahs, and burn their graven images with fire.
Deuteronomy 12:2
Ye shall utterly destroy all the places wherein the nations which ye shall dispossess have served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree;
Judges 6:25
That night the LORD said to him, "Take your father's bull, the second bull seven years old, and pull down the altar of Ba'al which your father has, and cut down the Ashe'rah that is beside it;
1 Kings 15:12
And he put away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his father had made.
2 Chronicles 19:3
Nevertheless there are good things found in thee; for thou hast put away the Asherahs out of the land, and hast directed thy heart to seek God.
2 Chronicles 31:1
And when all this was finished, all Israel that were present went out to the cities of Judah, and broke the columns, and hewed down the Asherahs, and demolished the high places and the altars in all Judah and Benjamin, in Ephraim also and Manasseh, until they had destroyed them all. And all the children of Israel returned every man to his possession, into their cities.
2 Chronicles 33:3
And he built again the high places that Hezekiah his father had broken down; and he reared up altars to the Baals, and made Asherahs, and worshipped all the host of heaven and served them.

The brasen serpent

Numbers 21:8
And Jehovah said to Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole; and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, and looketh upon it, shall live.
John 3:14
And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, thus must the Son of man be lifted up,

Unto those days

2 Kings 16:15
And king Ahaz commanded Urijah the priest saying, Upon the great altar burn the morning burnt-offering, and the evening oblation, and the king's burnt-offering, and his oblation, and the burnt-offering of all the people of the land, and their oblation, and their drink-offerings; and sprinkle upon it all the blood of the burnt-offerings, and all the blood of the sacrifices; and the brazen altar shall be for me to inquire by.

General references

2 Kings 12:3
Only, the high places were not removed: the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.