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
except that the high places were not demolished, so the people continued to sacrifice and burn incense on the high places.
2 Kings 14:4
except that the high places were not abolished. The people continued to offer sacrifices and to burn incense on the high places.
2 Kings 15:4
except that the high places were never removed, and the people kept on sacrificing and burning incense on the high places.
Leviticus 26:30
I'll destroy your high places and cut down your sun pillars. Then I'll cast your dead bodies on top of the bodies of your idols. I'll loathe you.
1 Kings 3:2
The people were sacrificing at various high places because the Temple had not yet been built and dedicated to the LORD.
1 Kings 15:14
Nevertheless, the high places were not removed, even though Asa's heart was blameless toward the LORD all of his life.
1 Kings 22:43
He lived like his father Asa and never abandoned that life. He did what the LORD considered to be right. Nevertheless, the high places were not demolished, and the people continued to sacrifice and burn incense on the high places.
Psalm 78:58
they angered him with their high places and with their carved images they made him jealous.
Ezekiel 20:28
I brought them to the land that I had promised to give them. But whenever they saw any high hill and or any leafy tree, they slaughtered their sacrifices there and presented their offerings that provoked my anger. There they presented their pleasing aromas and poured out their drink offering.

Brake

2 Kings 23:4
The king ordered Hilkiah the high priest, the priests of the secondary order, and the doorkeepers to take out of the LORD's Temple all of the implements that had been crafted for Baal, for Asherah, and for every star in the heavens. Then he burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron and carried the ashes to Bethel.
Deuteronomy 7:5
This is what you are to do to them: tear down their altars, break their pillars, cut down their ritual pillars, and burn their carved idols in fire,
Deuteronomy 12:2
Be sure you destroy there all the places where the nations that you're going to dispossess serve their gods upon the high mountains and hills and under every leafy tree.
Judges 6:25
Later that very night, the LORD told Gideon, "Take the bull that belongs to your father, along with a second bull that's seven years old. Then tear down the altar to Baal that your father owns, cut down the Asherah that's beside it,
1 Kings 15:12
He also removed the male cult prostitutes from the land and destroyed all the idols that his ancestors had made.
2 Chronicles 19:3
Nevertheless, a few good things have been found in you, in that you have removed the Asheroth from the land and you have disciplined yourself to seek God."
2 Chronicles 31:1
At the conclusion of all of these activities, everybody in Israel who was in attendance traveled throughout the cities of Judah, broke down the sacred pillars, cut down the Asherim, and broke down the high places and altars throughout the territories of Judah, Benjamin, Ephraim, and Manasseh until they had eliminated all of them. Then the people of Israel went back to their cities and back to their work.
2 Chronicles 33:3
He re-established the high places that his father Hezekiah had demolished, he built altars to the Baals, erected Asherim, and worshipped and served the armies of heaven.

The brasen serpent

Numbers 21:8
Then the LORD instructed Moses, "Make a poisonous serpent out of brass and fasten it to a pole. Anyone who has been bitten and who looks at it will live."
John 3:14
Just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up,

Unto those days

2 Kings 16:15
and issued these orders to Uriah the priest: "Burn the morning burnt offering, the evening grain offering, the king's burnt offering and grain offering, the whole burnt offering, the grain offering, and the drink offering on behalf of all the people of the land on the large altar. And sprinkle all the blood from the burnt offering and from the sacrifice. But I will use the bronze altar to ask God questions."

General references

2 Kings 12:3
except that the high places were not demolished, so the people continued to sacrifice and burn incense on the high places.

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