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.
And burned
The graves
General references
Bible References
The grove
2 Kings 21:7
He put an idol of Asherah he had made in the temple, about which the Lord had said to David and to his son Solomon, "This temple in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, will be my permanent home.
Judges 3:7
The Israelites did evil in the Lord's sight. They forgot the Lord their God and worshiped the Baals and the Asherahs.
1 Kings 14:23
They even built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.
1 Kings 16:33
Ahab also made an Asherah pole; he did more to anger the Lord God of Israel than all the kings of Israel who were before him.
Jeremiah 17:2
Their children are always thinking about their altars and their sacred poles dedicated to the goddess Asherah, set up beside the green trees on the high hills
And burned
Exodus 32:20
He took the calf they had made and burned it in the fire, ground it to powder, poured it out on the water, and made the Israelites drink it.
Deuteronomy 7:25
You must burn the images of their gods, but do not covet the silver and gold that covers them so much that you take it for yourself and thus become ensnared by it; for it is abhorrent to the Lord your God.
Deuteronomy 9:21
As for your sinful thing that you had made, the calf, I took it, melted it down, ground it up until it was as fine as dust, and tossed the dust into the stream that flows down the mountain.
The graves
2 Kings 10:27
They demolished the sacred pillar of Baal and the temple of Baal; it is used as a latrine to this very day.
2 Chronicles 34:4
He ordered the altars of the Baals to be torn down, and broke the incense altars that were above them. He smashed the Asherah poles, idols and images, crushed them up and sprinkled the dust over the tombs of those who had sacrificed to them.
General references
Jeremiah 32:34
They set up their disgusting idols in the temple which I have claimed for my own and defiled it.