Thematic Bible: Religious Reforms
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religious Reforms » Names of men under whose leadership reforms occurred » Idols put away
He did what was evil in the Lord’s sight, but not like his father and mother, for he removed the sacred pillar of Baal his father had made.
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When Asa heard these words and the prophecy of Azariah son of Oded the prophet, he took courage and removed the detestable idols from the whole land of Judah and Benjamin and from the cities he had captured in the hill country of Ephraim. He renovated the altar of the Lord that was in front of the portico of the Lord’s temple.
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Samuel told them, “If you are returning to the Lord with all your heart, get rid of the foreign gods and the Ashtoreths that are among you, dedicate yourselves to the Lord, and worship only Him. Then He will rescue you from the hand of the Philistines.”
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So Jacob said to his family and all who were with him, “Get rid of the foreign gods that are among you. Purify yourselves and change your clothes.
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“Therefore, fear the Lord and worship Him in sincerity and truth. Get rid of the gods your fathers worshiped beyond the Euphrates River and in Egypt, and worship Yahweh.
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He banished the male cult prostitutes from the land and removed all of the idols that his fathers had made.
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In addition, Josiah removed the mediums, the spiritists, household idols, images, and all the detestable things that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem. He did this in order to carry out the words of the law that were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the Lord’s temple.
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religious Reforms » Names of men under whose leadership reforms occurred » The temple cleansed
They gathered their brothers together, consecrated themselves, and went according to the king’s command by the words of the Lord to cleanse the Lord’s temple.
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I ordered that the rooms be purified, and I had the articles of the house of God restored there, along with the grain offering and frankincense.
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He said to me, “For 2,300 evenings and mornings; then the sanctuary will be restored.”
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Jesus went into the temple complex and drove out all those buying and selling in the temple. He overturned the money changers’ tables and the chairs of those selling doves.
After making a whip out of cords, He drove everyone out of the temple complex with their sheep and oxen. He also poured out the money changers’ coins and overturned the tables.
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religious Reforms » Names of men under whose leadership reforms occurred » Manasseh
He removed the foreign gods and the idol from the Lord’s temple, along with all the altars that he had built on the mountain of the Lord’s temple and in Jerusalem, and he threw them outside the city.
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So Josiah removed everything that was detestable from all the lands belonging to the Israelites, and he required all who were present in Israel to serve the Lord their God. Throughout his reign they did not turn aside from following Yahweh, the God of their ancestors.
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religious Reforms » Names of men under whose leadership reforms occurred » Jehoshaphat
However, some good is found in you, for you have removed the Asherah poles from the land and have decided to seek God.”
religious Reforms » Names of men under whose leadership reforms occurred » hezekiah
When all this was completed, all Israel who had attended went out to the cities of Judah and broke up the sacred pillars, chopped down the Asherah poles, and tore down the high places and altars throughout Judah and Benjamin, as well as in Ephraim and Manasseh, to the last one. Then all the Israelites returned to their cities, each to his own possession.
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religious Reforms » Names of men under whose leadership reforms occurred » Nehemiah
When shadows began to fall on the gates of Jerusalem just before the Sabbath, I gave orders that the gates be closed and not opened until after the Sabbath. I posted some of my men at the gates, so that no goods could enter during the Sabbath day.
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religious Reforms » Names of men under whose leadership reforms occurred » Asa
He banished the male cult prostitutes from the land and removed all of the idols that his fathers had made.
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religious Reforms » Names of men under whose leadership reforms occurred » Jehoiada
So all the people of the land went to the temple of Baal and tore it down. They broke its altars and images into pieces, and they killed Mattan, the priest of Baal, at the altars.
Then Jehoiada the priest appointed guards for the Lord’s temple.
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Then Jehoiada the priest appointed guards for the Lord’s temple.
religious Reforms » Names of men under whose leadership reforms occurred » Jehu
and tore down the pillar of Baal. Then they tore down the temple of Baal and made it a latrine—which it is to this day.
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religious Reforms » Names of men under whose leadership reforms occurred » Josiah
Then the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest and the priests of the second rank and the doorkeepers to bring out of the Lord’s temple all the articles made for Baal, Asherah, and the whole heavenly host. He burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron and carried their ashes to Bethel.
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religious Reforms » Names of men under whose leadership reforms occurred » -ezra
Let us therefore make a covenant before our God to send away all the foreign wives and their children, according to the counsel of my lord and of those who tremble at the command of our God. Let it be done according to the law.
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