Discovery Box2 Chronicles 23:17
Context23:17 All the people went and demolished 1 the temple of Baal. They smashed its altars and idols. 2 They killed Mattan the priest of Baal in front of the altars.
2 Chronicles 17:3
Context17:3 The Lord was with Jehoshaphat because he followed in his ancestor 3 David’s footsteps at the beginning of his reign. 4 He did not seek the Baals,
2 Chronicles 28:2
Context28:2 He followed in the footsteps of 5 the kings of Israel; he also made images of the Baals.
2 Chronicles 26:7
Context26:7 God helped him in his campaigns 6 against the Philistines, the Arabs living in Gur Baal, and the Meunites.
2 Chronicles 24:7
Context24:7 (Wicked Athaliah and her sons had broken into God’s temple and used all the holy items of the Lord’s temple in their worship of the Baals.)
2 Chronicles 33:3
Context33:3 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 7 and worshiped 8 them.
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.
[17:3] 4 tn Heb “for he walked in the ways of David his father [in] the beginning [times].”
[28:2] 5 tn Heb “he walked in the ways of.”
[26:7] 7 tn The words “in his campaigns” are supplied in the translation for clarity and for stylistic reasons
[33:3] 9 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.
[34:4] 11 tn Heb “and they tore down before him the altars of the Baals.”
