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 Jehovah 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, will I put my name for ever;

And the children of Israel did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, and forgat Jehovah their God, and served the Baalim and the Asheroth.

For they also built 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 Jehovah, the God of Israel, to anger than all the kings of Israel that were before him.

whilst their children 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 strewed it upon the water, and made the children of Israel drink of it.

The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire: thou shalt not covet the silver or the gold that is on them, nor take it unto thee, lest thou be snared therein; for it is an abomination to Jehovah 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 thereof into the brook that descended out of the mount.

The graves

And they brake down the pillar of Baal, and brake down the house of Baal, and made it a draught-house, unto this day.

And they brake 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 brake in pieces, and made dust of them, and strewed it upon the graves of them that had sacrificed unto them.

General references

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