Thematic Bible: Religious Reforms
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religious Reforms » Names of men under whose leadership reforms occurred » Idols put away
He did evil in the eyes of the Lord; but not like his father and his mother, for he put away the stone pillar of Baal which his father had made.
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And Asa, hearing these words of Azariah, the son of Oded the prophet, took heart and put away all the disgusting things out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the towns which he had taken from the hill-country of Ephraim; and he made new again the altar of the Lord in front of the covered way of the Lord's house.
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Then Samuel said to all Israel, If with all your hearts you would come back to the Lord, then put away all the strange gods and the Astartes from among you, and let your hearts be turned to the Lord, and be servants to him only: and he will make you safe from the hands of the Philistines.
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Then Jacob said to all his people, Put away the strange gods which are among you, and make yourselves clean, and put on a change of clothing:
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So now, go in fear of the Lord, and be his servants with true hearts: put away the gods worshipped by your fathers across the River and in Egypt, and be servants of the Lord.
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Those used for sex purposes in the worship of the gods he sent out of the country, and he took away all the images which his fathers had made.
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And all those who had control of spirits, and the wonder-workers, and the images, and the false gods, and all the disgusting things which were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, Josiah put away, so that he might give effect to the words of the agreement recorded in the book which Hilkiah the priest made discovery of in the house of the Lord.
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religious Reforms » Names of men under whose leadership reforms occurred » The temple cleansed
And they got their brothers together and made themselves holy, and went in, as the king had said by the word of the Lord, to make the house of the Lord clean.
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Then I gave orders, and they made the rooms clean: and I put back in them the vessels of the house of God, with the meal offerings and the perfume.
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And he said to him, For two thousand, three hundred evenings and mornings; then the holy place will be made clean.
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And Jesus went into the Temple and sent out all who were trading there, overturning the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those trading in doves.
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And he made a whip of small cords and put them all out of the Temple, with the sheep and the oxen, sending in all directions the small money of the changers and overturning their tables;
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religious Reforms » Names of men under whose leadership reforms occurred » Manasseh
He took away the strange gods and the image out of the house of the Lord, and all the altars he had put up on the hill of the Lord's house and in Jerusalem, and put them out of the town.
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Josiah took away all the disgusting things out of all the lands of the children of Israel, and made all who were in Israel servants of the Lord their God. And as long as he was living they were true to the Lord, the God of their fathers.
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religious Reforms » Names of men under whose leadership reforms occurred » Jehoshaphat
But still there is some good in you, for you have put away the wood pillars out of the land, and have given your heart to the worship of God.
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religious Reforms » Names of men under whose leadership reforms occurred » hezekiah
Now when all this was over, all the men of Israel who were present went out into the towns of Judah, causing the stone pillars to be broken up and the wood pillars to be cut down, pulling down the high places and the altars in all Judah and Benjamin, as well as in Ephraim and Manasseh, till all were gone. Then all the children of Israel went back to their towns, every man to his property.
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religious Reforms » Names of men under whose leadership reforms occurred » Nehemiah
And so, when the streets of Jerusalem were getting dark before the Sabbath, I gave orders for the doors to be shut and not to be open again till after the Sabbath: and I put some of my servants by the door so that nothing might be taken in on the Sabbath day.
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religious Reforms » Names of men under whose leadership reforms occurred » Asa
Those used for sex purposes in the worship of the gods he sent out of the country, and he took away all the images which his fathers had made.
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religious Reforms » Names of men under whose leadership reforms occurred » Jehoiada
Then all the people of the land went to the house of Baal and had it pulled down: its altars and images were all broken to bits, and Mattan, the priest of Baal, they put to death before the altars. And the priest put overseers over the Lord's house.
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religious Reforms » Names of men under whose leadership reforms occurred » Jehu
The altar of Baal was pulled down and the house of Baal was broken up and made an unclean place, as it is to this day.
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religious Reforms » Names of men under whose leadership reforms occurred » Josiah
Then the king gave orders to Hilkiah, the chief priest, and to the priests of the second order, and to the keepers of the door, to take out of the house of the Lord all the vessels made for Baal and for the Asherah and for all the stars of heaven; and he had them burned outside Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and took the dust of them to Beth-el
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religious Reforms » Names of men under whose leadership reforms occurred » -ezra
Let us now make an agreement with our God to put away all the wives and all their children, if it seems right to my lord and to those who go in fear of the words of our God; and let it be done in keeping with the law.
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