Leviticus 26:30
30And aI will destroy your high places and cut down your incense altars and bcast your dead bodies upon the dead bodies of your idols, and my soul will abhor you.2 Kings 23:14-15
14And he broke in pieces the cpillars and cut down the Asherim and filled their places with the bones of men.15Moreover, the altar at Bethel, the high place erected dby Jeroboam the son of Nebat, ewho made Israel to sin, fthat altar with the high place he pulled down and burned, ▼
▼Septuagint broke in pieces its stones
reducing it to dust. He also burned the Asherah. 2 Chronicles 31:1
Hezekiah Organizes the Priests
1Now when all this was finished, all Israel who were present went out to the cities of Judah and hbroke in pieces the ipillars and cut down jthe Asherim and broke down the high places and the altars throughout all Judah and Benjamin, and in Ephraim and Manasseh, until they had destroyed them all. Then all the people of Israel returned to their cities, every man to his possession.2 Chronicles 34:6-7
6And in the kcities of Manasseh, Ephraim, and Simeon, and as far as Naphtali, in their ruins ▼▼The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain
all around, 7he broke down the altars and beat the mAsherim and the images ninto powder and cut down all the incense altars throughout all the land of Israel. Then he returned to Jerusalem. Isaiah 27:9
9Therefore by this othe guilt of Jacob will be atoned for,and this will be the full fruit of the removal of his sin: ▼
▼Septuagint and this is the blessing when I take away his sin
qwhen he makes all the stones of the altars
like chalkstones crushed to pieces,
no rAsherim or incense altars will remain standing.
Hosea 8:6
6For it is from Israel;a craftsman made it;
it is not God.
sThe calf of Samaria
tshall be broken to pieces. ▼
▼Or shall go up in flames
Hosea 10:5-6
5The inhabitants of Samaria tremblefor vthe calf ▼
▼Or calves
of xBeth-aven.Its people mourn for it, and so do its idolatrous priests—
those who rejoiced over it and yover its glory—
for it has departed ▼
▼Or has gone into exile
from them.6 aaThe thing itself shall be carried to Assyria
as tribute to abthe great king. ▼
▼Or to King Jareb
Ephraim shall be put to shame,
and Israel shall be ashamed adof his idol. ▼
▼Or counsel
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