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

Nevertheless, the high places were not taken away; the people continued to sacrifice and make offerings on the high places.

But the high places were not removed; the people still sacrificed and made offerings on the high places.

Nevertheless, the high places were not taken away. The people still sacrificed and made offerings on the high places.

And I will destroy your high places and cut down your incense altars and cast your dead bodies upon the dead bodies of your idols, and my soul will abhor you.

The people were sacrificing at the high places, however, because no house had yet been built for the name of the LORD.

But the high places were not taken away. Nevertheless, the heart of Asa was wholly true to the LORD all his days.

He walked in all the way of Asa his father. He did not turn aside from it, doing what was right in the sight of the LORD. Yet the high places were not taken away, and the people still sacrificed and made offerings on the high places.

For they provoked him to anger with their high places; they moved him to jealousy with their idols.

For when I had brought them into the land that I swore to give them, then wherever they saw any high hill or any leafy tree, there they offered their sacrifices and there they presented the provocation of their offering; there they sent up their pleasing aromas, and there they poured out their drink offerings.

Brake

And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest and the priests of the second order and the keepers of the threshold to bring out of the temple of the LORD all the vessels made for Baal, for Asherah, and for all the host of heaven. He burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron and carried their ashes to Bethel

But thus shall you deal with them: you shall break down their altars and dash in pieces their pillars and chop down their Asherim and burn their carved images with fire.

You shall surely destroy all the places where the nations whom you shall dispossess served their gods, on the high mountains and on the hills and under every green tree.

That night the LORD said to him, "Take your father's bull, and the second bull seven years old, and pull down the altar of Baal that your father has, and cut down the Asherah that is beside it

He put away the male cult prostitutes out of the land and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.

Nevertheless, some good is found in you, for you destroyed the Asherahs out of the land, and have set your heart to seek God."

Now when all this was finished, all Israel who were present went out to the cities of Judah and broke in pieces the pillars and cut down the Asherim and broke down the high places and the altars throughout all Judah and Benjamin, and in Ephraim and Manasseh, until they had destroyed them all. Then all the people of Israel returned to their cities, every man to his possession.

For he rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had broken down, and he erected altars to the Baals, and made Asherahs, and worshiped all the host of heaven and served them.

The brasen serpent

And the LORD said to Moses, "Make a fiery serpent and set it on a pole, and everyone who is bitten, when he sees it, shall live."

And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up,

Unto those days

And King Ahaz commanded Uriah the priest, saying, "On the great altar burn the morning burnt offering and the evening grain offering and the king's burnt offering and his grain offering, with the burnt offering of all the people of the land, and their grain offering and their drink offering. And throw on it all the blood of the burnt offering and all the blood of the sacrifice, but the bronze altar shall be for me to inquire by."

General references

Nevertheless, the high places were not taken away; the people continued to sacrifice and make offerings on the high places.