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2 Chronicles 14:3

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14:3He removed the pagan altars6 and the high places, smashed the sacred pillars, and cut down the Asherah poles.7

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  1. 6 Heb “the altars of the foreigner.”
  2. 7 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).

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

He took away the foreign altars and the high places and broke down the pillars and cut down the Asherim

NIVNew International Version (2011)

He removed the foreign altars and the high places, smashed the sacred stones and cut down the Asherah poles.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

He removed the pagan altars and the high places. He shattered their sacred pillars and chopped down their Asherah poles.

NLTNew Living Translation

He removed the foreign altars and the pagan shrines. He smashed the sacred pillars and cut down the Asherah poles.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

He removed the foreign altars and high places, broke down the stone pillars, and cut down the Asherahs.

KJV 1900King James Version

For he took away the altars of the strange gods, and the high places, and brake down the images, and cut down the groves: