2 Chronicles 14:3

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

biblegateway 2Ch 14:3

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

biblegateway 2Ch 14:3

for he removed the foreign altars and high places, tore down the sacred pillars, cut down the Asherim,

biblegateway 2Ch 14:3

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

biblegateway 2Ch 14:3

He cleaned house: got rid of the pagan altars and shrines, smashed the sacred stone pillars, and chopped down the sex-and-religion groves (Asherim).

SABDAweb 2Ch 14:3

For he took away the altars of strange gods and the high places, and had the upright stones broken and the wood pillars cut down;

bibleoremus 2Ch 14:3

He took away the foreign altars and the high places, broke down the pillars, hewed down the sacred poles,

biblegateway 2Ch 14:3

for he removed the altars of the foreign gods and the high places, and broke down the sacred pillars and cut down the wooden images.

biblegateway 2Ch 14:3

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

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).