2 Kings 23:6

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And he brought out the grove from the house of the LORD, without Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and stamped it small to powder, and cast the powder thereof upon the graves of the children of the people.

The grove

Jeremiah 17:2

And burned

Exodus 32:20

Deuteronomy 7:25

Deuteronomy 9:21

The graves

2 Kings 10:27

2 Chronicles 34:4

General references

Jeremiah 32:34

Bible References

The grove

And he set the graven image of Asherah, that he had made, in the house of which LORD said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my name for

And the sons of Israel did that which was evil in the sight of LORD, and forgot LORD their God, and served the Baalim and the Asheroth.

For they also built for them high places, and pillars, and Asherim, on every high hill, and under every green tree.

And Ahab made the Asherah. And Ahab did yet more to provoke LORD, the God of Israel, to anger than all the kings of Israel who were before him.

while their sons remember their altars and their Asherim by the green trees upon the high hills.

And burned

And he took the calf which they had made, and burnt it with fire, and ground it to powder, and scattered it upon the water, and made the sons of Israel drink of it.

Ye shall burn the graven images of their gods with fire. Thou shall not covet the silver or the gold that is on them, nor take it to thee, lest thou be snared by it, for it is an abomination to LORD thy God.

And I took your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it, grinding it very small, until it was as fine as dust. And I cast the dust of it into the brook that descended out of the mount.

The graves

And they broke down the pillar of Baal, and broke down the house of Baal, and made it an out-house to this day.

And they broke down the altars of the Baalim in his presence, and the sun-images that were on high above them he hewed down, and the Asherim, and the graven images, and the molten images, he broke in pieces, and made dust of them,

General references

But they set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to defile it.