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

除掉外邦神的坛和邱坛，打碎柱像，砍下木偶，

除掉外邦的祭坛和丘坛，打碎柱像，砍下亚舍拉，

除掉外邦的祭坛和丘坛，打碎柱像，砍下亚舍拉，

拆除外族神明的丘坛和神庙，打碎神柱，砍倒亚舍拉神像，

他除掉外族人的祭坛和邱坛，打断神柱，砍下亚舍拉，

除掉外邦神的壇和邱壇，打碎柱像，砍下木偶，

除掉外邦的祭壇和丘壇，打碎柱像，砍下亞舍拉，

除掉外邦的祭壇和丘壇，打碎柱像，砍下亞舍拉，

拆除外族神明的邱壇和神廟，打碎神柱，砍倒亞舍拉神像，

他除掉外族人的祭壇和邱壇，打斷神柱，砍下亞舍拉，

他除掉了外人祭壇和邱壇，打碎了崇拜柱子，砍下了亞舍拉神木，

除異邦之祭壇與崇邱、毀柱像、斫木偶、

棄異邦上帝之壇、廢崇坵、毀偶像、伐林木。

除異邦神之祭壇、及邱壇、毀柱像、斷諸亞舍拉、

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

Asa removed the altars where false gods were worshiped. He took away the high places. He smashed the sacred stones. He cut down the poles used to worship the female god named Asherah.

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

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

for he removed the foreign altars and high places, tore down the memorial stones, cut down the Asherim,

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.

for he took away the foreign altars, and the high places, and brake down the pillars, and hewed down the Asherim,

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

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

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

for he took away the foreign altars and the high places, broke down the pillars, cut down the Asherah poles,

This is what you must do. You must break down their pagan altars and shatter their sacred pillars. Cut down their Asherah poles and burn their idols.

Instead, you must break down their pagan altars, smash their sacred pillars, and cut down their Asherah poles.

He smashed the sacred pillars and cut down the Asherah poles. Then he desecrated these places by scattering human bones over them.

He banished the male and female shrine prostitutes from the land and got rid of all the idols his ancestors had made.He even deposed his grandmother Maacah from her position as queen mother because she had made an obscene Asherah pole. He cut down her obscene pole and burned it in the Kidron Valley.Although the pagan shrines were not removed, Asa’s heart remained completely faithful to the Lord throughout his life.

Although the pagan shrines were not removed from Israel, Asa’s heart remained completely faithful throughout his life.

The king removed the Asherah pole from the Lord’s Temple and took it outside Jerusalem to the Kidron Valley, where he burned it. Then he ground the ashes of the pole to dust and threw the dust over the graves of the people.

I will destroy your pagan shrines and knock down your places of worship. I will leave your lifeless corpses piled on top of your lifeless idols, and I will despise you.

“ You must burn their idols in fire, and you must not covet the silver or gold that covers them. You must not take it or it will become a trap to you, for it is detestable to the Lord your God.

He removed the pagan shrines, smashed the sacred pillars, and cut down the Asherah poles. He broke up the bronze serpent that Moses had made, because the people of Israel had been offering sacrifices to it. The bronze serpent was called Nehushtan.

That night the Lord said to Gideon,“ Take the second bull from your father’s herd, the one that is seven years old. Pull down your father’s altar to Baal, and cut down the Asherah pole standing beside it.Then build an altar to the Lord your God here on this hilltop sanctuary, laying the stones carefully. Sacrifice the bull as a burnt offering on the altar, using as fuel the wood of the Asherah pole you cut down.”So Gideon took ten of his servants and did as the Lord had commanded. But he did it at night because he was afraid of the other members of his father’s household and the people of the town.Early the next morning, as the people of the town began to stir, someone discovered that the altar of Baal had been broken down and that the Asherah pole beside it had been cut down. In their place a new altar had been built, and on it were the remains of the bull that had been sacrificed.

He ordered that the altars of Baal be demolished and that the incense altars which stood above them be broken down. He also made sure that the Asherah poles, the carved idols, and the cast images were smashed and scattered over the graves of those who had sacrificed to them.

On the Mount of Olives, east of Jerusalem, he even built a pagan shrine for Chemosh, the detestable god of Moab, and another for Molech, the detestable god of the Ammonites.Solomon built such shrines for all his foreign wives to use for burning incense and sacrificing to their gods.

During Rehoboam’s reign, the people of Judah did what was evil in the Lord’s sight, provoking his anger with their sin, for it was even worse than that of their ancestors.For they also built for themselves pagan shrines and set up sacred pillars and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.There were even male and female shrine prostitutes throughout the land. The people imitated the detestable practices of the pagan nations the Lord had driven from the land ahead of the Israelites.