2 Chronicles 34:6-7

Josiah Reigns in Judah

6 And in the q cities of Manasseh, Ephraim, and Simeon, and as far as Naphtali, in their ruins 1 all around, 7 he broke down the altars and beat the n Asherim and the images r into powder and cut down all the incense altars throughout all the land of Israel. Then he returned to Jerusalem.

  1. Cross References
    2 Kings 23:15
    Moreover, the altar at Bethel, the high place erected by Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, that altar with the high place he pulled down and burned, reducing it to dust. He also burned the Asherah.
    2 Kings 23:19
    And Josiah removed all the shrines also of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which kings of Israel had made, provoking the Lord to anger. He did to them according to all that he had done at Bethel.
  2. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 34:3
    For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet a boy, he began to seek the God of David his father, and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the Asherim, and the carved and the metal images.
  3. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 9:21
    Then I took the sinful thing, the calf that you had made, and burned it with fire and crushed it, grinding it very small, until it was as fine as dust. And I threw the dust of it into the brook that ran down from the mountain.
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