Thematic Bible: Religious Reforms
Thematic Bible
religious Reforms » Names of men under whose leadership reforms occurred » Idols put away
And he did evil in the sight of Jehovah, but not like his father and his mother; for he put away the image of Baal that his father had made.
And when Asa heard these words, and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he took courage and put away the abominable idols out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the cities which he had taken from mount Ephraim. And he renewed the altar of Jehovah before the porch of Jehovah.
And Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel saying, If you return to Jehovah with all your hearts, then put away the strange gods and Ashtaroth from among you, and prepare your hearts to Jehovah, and serve Him only. And He will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.
Then Jacob said to his household, and to all that were with him, Put away the strange gods among you, and be clean, and change your garments.
Now, then, fear Jehovah, and serve Him in sincerity and truth. And put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the flood, and in Egypt, and serve Jehovah.
And he took away the sodomites out of the land and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
And also Josiah put away the mediums, and the soothsayers, and the family gods, and the idols, and all the abominations which were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, so that he might perform the Words of the Law which were written in the Book which Hilkiah the priest found in the house of Jehovah.
religious Reforms » Names of men under whose leadership reforms occurred » The temple cleansed
And they gathered their brothers and sanctified themselves, and came, according to the command of the king, by the words of Jehovah, to clean the house of Jehovah.
Then I commanded, and they purified the rooms. And I brought there again the vessels of the house of God, with the food offering and the frankincense.
And he said to me, For two thousand, three hundred evenings and mornings. Then the sanctuary shall be vindicated.
And Jesus went into the temple of God and cast out all those who sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the money-changers, and the seats of those who sold doves.
And when He had made a scourge of small cords, He drove them all out of the temple, also the sheep and the oxen. And He poured out the money-changers' money and overthrew the tables.
religious Reforms » Names of men under whose leadership reforms occurred » Manasseh
And he took away the strange gods, and the idol out of the house of Jehovah, and all the altars that he had built in the mountain of the house of Jehovah, and in Jerusalem, and threw them out of the city.
And Josiah took away all the abominations out of all the territories that belonged to the sons of Israel. And he made all that were present in Israel to serve, to serve Jehovah their God. All his days they did not depart from following Jehovah, the God of their fathers.
religious Reforms » Names of men under whose leadership reforms occurred » Jehoshaphat
But there are good things found in you, in that you have taken away the Asherahs out of the land and have prepared your heart to seek God.
religious Reforms » Names of men under whose leadership reforms occurred » hezekiah
And when all this was finished, all Israel who were present went out to the cities of Judah and broke the images in pieces, and cut down the Asherahs, and threw down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, also in Ephraim and Manasseh, even to the end. And all the sons of Israel returned, each to his possession, into their own cities.
religious Reforms » Names of men under whose leadership reforms occurred » Nehemiah
And it happened when the gates of Jerusalem began to be dark before the Sabbath, I commanded that the gates should be shut, and commanded that they should not be opened until after the Sabbath. And I set some of my servants at the gates, so that there should be no burden brought in on the Sabbath day.
religious Reforms » Names of men under whose leadership reforms occurred » Asa
And he took away the sodomites out of the land and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
religious Reforms » Names of men under whose leadership reforms occurred » Jehoiada
And all the people of the land went into the house of Baal and broke it down. They broke his altars and his images completely in pieces. And they killed Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. And the priest appointed officers over the house of Jehovah.
religious Reforms » Names of men under whose leadership reforms occurred » Jehu
And they broke down the image of Baal, and broke down the house of Baal and made it a sewer-house until this day.
religious Reforms » Names of men under whose leadership reforms occurred » Josiah
And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the doorkeepers, to bring forth out of the temple of Jehovah all the vessels which were made for Baal, and for the Asherah, and for all the host of heaven. And he burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and carried the ashes of them to Bethel.
religious Reforms » Names of men under whose leadership reforms occurred » -ezra
And now let us make a covenant with our God to put away all the women, and such as have been born of them, according to the counsel of the Lord, and of those who tremble at the commandment of our God. And let it be done according to the Law.