Discovery Box2 Chronicles 34:4
Context34:4 He ordered the altars of the Baals to be torn down, 1 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.
Exodus 34:13
Context34:13 Rather you must destroy their altars, smash their images, and cut down their Asherah poles. 2
Deuteronomy 7:5
Context7:5 Instead, this is what you must do to them: You must tear down their altars, shatter their sacred pillars, 3 cut down their sacred Asherah poles, 4 and burn up their idols.
Deuteronomy 7:25
Context7:25 You must burn the images of their gods, but do not covet the silver and gold that covers them so much that you take it for yourself and thus become ensnared by it; for it is abhorrent 5 to the Lord your God.
[34:4] 1 tn Heb “and they tore down before him the altars of the Baals.”
[34:13] 2 tn Or “images of Asherah”; ASV, NASB “their Asherim”; NCV “their Asherah idols.”
[7:5] 3 sn Sacred pillars. The Hebrew word (מַצֵּבֹת, matsevot) denotes a standing pillar, usually made of stone. Its purpose was to mark the presence of a shrine or altar thought to have been visited by deity. Though sometimes associated with pure worship of the
[7:5] 4 sn Sacred 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 12:3; 16:21; Judg 6:25, 28, 30; 2 Kgs 18:4).
[7:25] 5 tn The Hebrew word תּוֹעֵבָה (to’evah, “abhorrent; detestable”) describes anything detestable to the
