2Ki 21:7, 2Ch 33:3-7, Isa 2:17-21, Eze 18:20-22, Hos 14:1-3, Mat 3:8 | ESV | STEP | And the carved image of Asherah that he had made he set in the house of which the Lord said to David and to Solomon his son , In this house , and in Jerusalem , which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel , I will put my name forever .

7 And the carved image of ^aAsherah that he had made he set in the house of which the Lord said to David and to Solomon his son, “In this house, ^band in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my name forever.

2 Chronicles 33:3-7

3 For he rebuilt the high places ^cthat his father Hezekiah had broken down, and he erected altars to the Baals, and made ^dAsheroth, and worshiped all the host of heaven and served them. 4 And he built altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, ^e“In Jerusalem shall my name be forever.” 5 And he built altars for all the host of heaven in ^fthe two courts of the house of the Lord. 6 ^gAnd he burned his sons as an offering ^hin the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, and ⁱused fortune-telling and omens and sorcery, and dealt with ^jmediums and with necromancers. He did much evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger. 7 And ^kthe carved image of the idol that he had made he set in the house of God, of which God said to David and to Solomon his son, “In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, ^lI will put my name forever,

Isaiah 2:17-21

17 ^mAnd the haughtiness of man shall be humbled,
and the lofty pride of men shall be brought low,
and the Lord alone will be exalted in that day.
18 ⁿAnd the idols shall utterly pass away.
19 ^oAnd people shall enter the caves of the rocks
and the holes of the ground, ^{▼▼Hebrew dust}
from before the terror of the Lord,
and from the splendor of his majesty,
^qwhen he rises to terrify the earth.
20 In that day ^rmankind will cast away
their idols of silver and their idols of gold,
which they made for themselves to worship,
to the moles and to the ^sbats,
21 ^tto enter the caverns of the rocks
and the clefts of the cliffs,
from before the terror of the Lord,
and from the splendor of his majesty,
^uwhen he rises to terrify the earth.

Ezekiel 18:20-22

20 ^vThe soul who sins shall die. ^wThe son shall not suffer for the iniquity of the father, nor the father suffer for the iniquity of the son. ^xThe righteousness of the righteous shall be upon himself, ^yand the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon himself.

21 ^z“But if a wicked person turns away from all his sins that he has committed and keeps all my statutes and does ^aawhat is just and right, ^abhe shall surely live; he shall not die. 22 ^acNone of the transgressions that he has committed shall be remembered against him; for the righteousness that he has done he shall live.

Hosea 14:1-3

A Plea to Return to the Lord

1 ^adReturn, O Israel, to the Lord your God,
for ^aeyou have stumbled because of your iniquity.
2 Take with you words
and return to the Lord;
say to him,
“Take away all iniquity;
accept ^afwhat is good,
and we will pay with bulls
^agthe vows ^{▼▼Septuagint, Syriac pay the fruit} of our lips.
3 ^aiAssyria shall not save us;
^ajwe will not ride on horses;
and ^akwe will say no more, ‘Our God,’
to the work of our hands.
^alIn you the orphan finds mercy.”

Matthew 3:8

8 Bear fruit ^amin keeping with repentance.