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2 Chronicles 14:3

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14:3 He removed the pagan altars 1  and the high places, smashed the sacred pillars, and cut down the Asherah poles. 2 

2 Chronicles 33:5

Context
33:5 In the two courtyards of the Lord’s temple he built altars for all the stars in the sky.

1 tn Heb “the altars of the foreigner.”

2 sn Asherah poles. A leading deity of the Canaanite pantheon was Asherah, wife/sister of El and goddess of fertility. She was commonly worshiped at shrines in or near groves of evergreen trees, or, failing that, at places marked by wooden poles (Hebrew אֲשֵׁרִים [’asherim], as here). They were to be burned or cut down (Deut 7:5; 12:3; 16:21; Judg 6:25, 28, 30; 2 Kgs 18:4).



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