2 Chronicles 14:3
Context14:3 He removed the pagan altars 1 and the high places, smashed the sacred pillars, and cut down the Asherah poles. 2
2 Chronicles 23:17
Context23:17 All the people went and demolished 3 the temple of Baal. They smashed its altars and idols. 4 They killed Mattan the priest of Baal in front of the altars.
2 Chronicles 14:13
Context14:13 and Asa and his army chased them as far as Gerar. The Cushites were wiped out; 5 they were shattered before the Lord and his army. The men of Judah 6 carried off a huge amount of plunder.
2 Chronicles 20:37
Context20:37 Eliezer son of Dodavahu from Mareshah prophesied against Jehoshaphat, “Because 7 you made an alliance with Ahaziah, the Lord will shatter what you have made.” The ships were wrecked and unable to go to sea. 8
2 Chronicles 34:4
Context34:4 He ordered the altars of the Baals to be torn down, 9 and broke the incense altars that were above them. He smashed the Asherah poles, idols and images, crushed them up and sprinkled the dust over the tombs of those who had sacrificed to them.
2 Chronicles 31:1
Context31:1 When all this was over, the Israelites 10 who were in the cities of Judah went out and smashed the sacred pillars, cut down the Asherah poles, and demolished 11 all the high places and altars throughout Judah, Benjamin, Ephraim, and Manasseh. 12 Then all the Israelites returned to their own homes in their cities. 13


[14:3] 1 tn Heb “the altars of the foreigner.”
[14:3] 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).
[14:13] 5 tn Heb “and there fell from the Cushites so that there was not to them preservation of life.”
[14:13] 6 tn Heb “they”; the referent (the men of Judah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
[20:37] 8 tn Heb “to go to Tarshish.”
[34:4] 9 tn Heb “and they tore down before him the altars of the Baals.”
[31:1] 11 tn Heb “all Israel.”
[31:1] 13 tn Heb “the high places and the altars from all Judah and Benjamin and in Ephraim and in Manasseh until finished.”
[31:1] 14 tn Heb “and the sons of Israel returned, each to his possession to their cities.”