Asa removed the altars where false gods were worshiped. He took away the high places. He smashed the sacred stones. He cut down the poles used to worship the female god named Asherah.

除掉外邦神的坛和邱坛，打碎柱像，砍下木偶，

除掉外邦的祭坛和丘坛，打碎柱像，砍下亚舍拉，

除掉外邦的祭坛和丘坛，打碎柱像，砍下亚舍拉，

拆除外族神明的丘坛和神庙，打碎神柱，砍倒亚舍拉神像，

他除掉外族人的祭坛和邱坛，打断神柱，砍下亚舍拉，

除掉外邦神的壇和邱壇，打碎柱像，砍下木偶，

除掉外邦的祭壇和丘壇，打碎柱像，砍下亞舍拉，

除掉外邦的祭壇和丘壇，打碎柱像，砍下亞舍拉，

拆除外族神明的邱壇和神廟，打碎神柱，砍倒亞舍拉神像，

他除掉外族人的祭壇和邱壇，打斷神柱，砍下亞舍拉，

他除掉了外人祭壇和邱壇，打碎了崇拜柱子，砍下了亞舍拉神木，

除異邦之祭壇與崇邱、毀柱像、斫木偶、

棄異邦上帝之壇、廢崇坵、毀偶像、伐林木。

除異邦神之祭壇、及邱壇、毀柱像、斷諸亞舍拉、

He removed the foreign altars and the high places, smashed the sacred stones and cut down the Asherah poles.

He took away the foreign altars and the high places and broke down the pillars and cut down the Asherim

He removed the foreign altars and the pagan shrines. He smashed the sacred pillars and cut down the Asherah poles.

He removed the pagan altars and the high places. He shattered their sacred pillars and chopped down their Asherah poles.

for he removed the foreign altars and high places, tore down the memorial stones, cut down the Asherim,

for he removed the altars of the foreign gods and the high places, and broke down the sacred pillars and cut down the wooden images.

for he took away the foreign altars, and the high places, and brake down the pillars, and hewed down the Asherim,

He removed the pagan altars and the high places. He shattered their sacred pillars and chopped down their Asherah poles.

For he took away the altars of the strange[ gods], and the high places, and brake down the images, and cut down the groves:

He removed the pagan altars and the high places, smashed the sacred pillars, and cut down the Asherah poles.

for he took away the foreign altars and the high places, broke down the pillars, cut down the Asherah poles,

So here is what you must do to those people. Break down their altars. Smash their sacred stones. Cut down the poles they use to worship the female god named Asherah. Burn the statues of their gods in the fire.

Break down their altars. Smash their sacred stones. Cut down the poles they use to worship the female god named Asherah.

Josiah smashed the sacred stones. He cut down the poles used to worship the female god named Asherah. Then he covered all those places with human bones.

Asa threw out of the land the male prostitutes who were at the temples. He got rid of all the statues of gods made by his people of long ago.He even removed his grandmother Maakah from her position as queen mother. That’s because she had made a pole used to worship the female god named Asherah. The Lord hated it. So Asa cut it down. He burned it in the Kidron Valley.Asa didn’t remove the high places from Israel. But he committed his whole life completely to the Lord.

Asa didn’t remove the high places from Israel. But he committed his whole life completely to the Lord.

Josiah removed the Asherah pole from the Lord’ s temple. It had been used to worship the female god named Asherah. He took it to the Kidron Valley outside Jerusalem. There he burned it. He ground it into powder. And he scattered it over the graves of the ordinary people.

I will destroy the high places where you worship other gods. I will pull down your incense altars. I will pile up your dead bodies on the lifeless statues of your gods. And I will turn away from you.

Burn the statues of their gods in the fire. Don’t wish for the silver and gold on those statues. Don’t take it for yourselves. If you do, it will be a trap for you. The Lord your God hates it.

Hezekiah removed the high places. He smashed the sacred stones. He cut down the poles used to worship the female god named Asherah. He broke into pieces the bronze snake Moses had made. Up to that time the Israelites had been burning incense to it. They called it Nehushtan.

That same night the Lord spoke to Gideon. He said,“ Get the second bull from your father’s herd. Get the one that is seven years old. Tear down the altar your father built to honor the god named Baal. Cut down the pole beside it. The pole is used to worship the female god named Asherah.Then build the right kind of altar. Build it to honor the Lord your God. Build it on top of this hill. Then use the wood from the Asherah pole you cut down. Sacrifice the second bull as a burnt offering.”So Gideon went and got ten of his servants. He did just as the Lord had told him. But he was afraid of his family. He was also afraid of the people in the town. So he did everything at night instead of during the day.In the morning the people in the town got up. They saw that Baal’s altar had been torn down. The Asherah pole beside it had been cut down. And the second bull had been sacrificed on the new altar that had been built.

He ordered the altars of the gods that were named Baal to be torn down. Josiah cut to pieces the altars above them that were used for burning incense. He smashed the Asherah poles. He also smashed the statues of other false gods. Josiah broke all of them to pieces. He scattered the pieces over the graves of those who had offered sacrifices to those gods.

There is a hill east of Jerusalem. Solomon built a high place for worshiping Chemosh there. He built a high place for worshiping Molek there too. Chemosh was the god of Moab. Molek was the god of Ammon. The Lord hated both of those gods.Solomon also built high places so that all his wives from other nations could worship their gods. Those women burned incense and offered sacrifices to their gods.

The people of Judah did what was evil in the sight of the Lord. The sins they had committed made the Lord angry. The Lord was angry because they refused to worship only him. They did more to make him angry than their people who lived before them had done.Judah also set up for themselves high places for worship. They set up sacred stones. They set up poles used to worship the female god named Asherah. They did it on every high hill and under every green tree.There were even male prostitutes at the temples in the land. The people took part in all the practices of other nations. The Lord hated those practices. He had driven those nations out to make room for the Israelites.