2 Chronicles 5:9
5:9 The poles were so long their ends extending out from the ark were visible from in front of the inner sanctuary, but they could not be seen from beyond that point. 1 They have remained there to this very day.
2 Chronicles 24:18
24:18 They abandoned the temple of the Lord God of their ancestors, 2 and worshiped 3 the Asherah poles and idols. Because of this sinful activity, God was angry with Judah and Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 33:3
33:3 He rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed; he set up altars for the Baals and made Asherah poles. He bowed down to all the stars in the sky 4 and worshiped 5 them.
1 tn Heb “they could not be seen outside.”
2 tn Heb “fathers” (also in v. 24).
3 tn Heb “served.”
4 tn The phrase כָל צְבָא הֲַשָּׁמַיִם (khol tsÿva’ hashamayim), traditionally translated “all the host of heaven,” refers to the heavenly lights, including stars and planets. In 1 Kgs 22:19 these heavenly bodies are pictured as members of the Lord’s royal court or assembly, but many other texts view them as the illegitimate objects of pagan and Israelite worship.
5 tn Or “served.”