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Contemporary English Version

2 Chronicles 14:5

He destroyed every local shrine and incense altar in Judah.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Iconoclasm;   Revivals;   Rulers;   Zeal, Religious;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - High Places;   Kings;   Sun, the;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Artaxerxes;   Judah, tribe and kingdom;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Idol;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Sun;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Chronicles, Books of;   High Place;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Chronicles, I;   Sun;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Kingdom of Judah;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Chronicles, Books of;   Criticism (the Graf-Wellhausen Hypothesis);   High Place;   Images;   Judah, Kingdom of;   Sun-Worship;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Asa;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Pillar;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
He also removed the high places and the shrines from all the cities of Judah, and the kingdom experienced peace under him.
Hebrew Names Version
Also he took away out of all the cities of Yehudah the high places and the sun-images: and the kingdom was quiet before him.
King James Version
Also he took away out of all the cities of Judah the high places and the images: and the kingdom was quiet before him.
English Standard Version
He also took out of all the cities of Judah the high places and the incense altars. And the kingdom had rest under him.
New Century Version
He also removed the places where gods were worshiped and the incense altars from every town in Judah. So the kingdom had peace while Asa was king.
New English Translation
He removed the high places and the incense altars from all the cities of Judah. The kingdom had rest under his rule.
Amplified Bible
Asa also removed the [idolatrous] high places and the incense altars from all the cities of Judah. The kingdom was at rest and undisturbed under his reign.
New American Standard Bible
He also removed the high places and the incense altars from all the cities of Judah. And the kingdom was undisturbed under him.
World English Bible
Also he took away out of all the cities of Judah the high places and the sun-images: and the kingdom was quiet before him.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And he tooke away out of all the cities of Iudah the hie places, and the images: therefore the kingdome was quiet before him.
Legacy Standard Bible
He also removed the high places and the incense altars from all the cities of Judah. And the kingdom was quiet before him.
Berean Standard Bible
He also removed the high places and the incense altars from all the cities of Judah, and under him the kingdom was at peace.
Complete Jewish Bible
Because the land was quiet, and he had no war during those years, since Adonai had given him rest, he built fortified cities in Y'hudah.
Darby Translation
And he removed out of all the cities of Judah the high places and the sun-images; and the kingdom was quiet before him.
Easy-to-Read Version
He also removed all the high places and incense altars from all the towns in Judah. So the kingdom had peace when Asa was king.
George Lamsa Translation
Also he uprooted out of all the cities of Judah the shrines on the high places and the idols; and his kingdom was quiet in his days, and he had no enemies on all his borders.
Good News Translation
Because he abolished the pagan places of worship and the incense altars from all the cities of Judah, the kingdom was at peace under his rule.
Lexham English Bible
And he removed the high places and the incense stands from all the cities of Judah, and the kingdom had rest under him.
Literal Translation
And he removed the high places and the images out of all the cities of Judah. And the kingdom was quiet before him.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And the hye places and ymages put he awaye out of all the cities of Iuda: and the kyngdome had rest before him.
American Standard Version
Also he took away out of all the cities of Judah the high places and the sun-images: and the kingdom was quiet before him.
Bible in Basic English
And he took away the high places and the sun-images from all the towns of Judah; and the kingdom was quiet under his rule.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And he put away out of all the cities of Iuda the high places & the images: & the kingdome was quiet before him.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And he built fortified cities in Judah; for the land was quiet, and he had no war in those years; because the LORD had given him rest.
King James Version (1611)
Also he tooke away out of all the cities of Iudah, the high places and the images: and the kingdome was quiet before him.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And he removed from all the cities of Juda the altars and the idols, and established in quietness
English Revised Version
Also he took away out of all the cities of Judah the high places and the sun–images: and the kingdom was quiet before him.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And he took awei fro alle the citees of Juda auteris and templis of idols, and he regnede in pees.
Update Bible Version
Also he took away out of all the cities of Judah the high places and the sun-images: and the kingdom was quiet before him.
Webster's Bible Translation
Also he took away out of all the cities of Judah the high places and the images: and the kingdom was quiet before him.
New King James Version
He also removed the high places and the incense altars from all the cities of Judah, and the kingdom was quiet under him.
New Living Translation
Asa also removed the pagan shrines, as well as the incense altars from every one of Judah's towns. So Asa's kingdom enjoyed a period of peace.
New Life Bible
He put the high places and the altars of special perfume away from all the cities of Judah. And the nation had rest under his rule.
New Revised Standard
He also removed from all the cities of Judah the high places and the incense altars. And the kingdom had rest under him.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and removed from all the cities of Judah, the high places, and the sun-images, - and the kingdom became quiet before him.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And he took away out of all the cities of Juda the altars, and temples, and reigned in peace.
Revised Standard Version
He also took out of all the cities of Judah the high places and the incense altars. And the kingdom had rest under him.
Young's Literal Translation
and he turneth aside out of all cities of Judah the high places and the images, and the kingdom is quiet before him.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
He also removed the high places and the incense altars from all the cities of Judah. And the kingdom was undisturbed under him.

Contextual Overview

1 Abijah died and was buried in Jerusalem. Then his son Asa became king, and Judah had ten years of peace. 2 Asa obeyed the Lord his God and did right. 3 He destroyed the local shrines and the altars to foreign gods. He smashed the stone images of gods and cut down the sacred poles used in worshiping the goddess Asherah. 4 Then he told everyone in Judah to worship the Lord God, just as their ancestors had done, and to obey his laws and teachings. 5 He destroyed every local shrine and incense altar in Judah. 6 The Lord blessed Judah with peace while Asa was king, and so during that time, Asa fortified many of the towns. 7 He said to the people, "Let's build walls and defense towers for these towns, and put in gates that can be locked with bars. This land still belongs to us, because we have obeyed the Lord our God. He has given us peace from all our enemies." The people did everything Asa had suggested. 8 Asa had a large army of brave soldiers: Three hundred thousand of them were from the tribe of Judah and were armed with shields and spears; two hundred eighty thousand were from Benjamin and were armed with bows and arrows.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

images: Heb. sun-images, 2 Chronicles 34:4, *marg.

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 15:14 - the high places 2 Kings 23:11 - the sun 2 Chronicles 32:5 - he strengthened Isaiah 17:8 - images Isaiah 27:9 - images Ezekiel 6:4 - images

Cross-References

Genesis 14:10
was full of tar pits, and when the troops from Sodom and Gomorrah started running away, some of them fell into the pits. Others escaped to the hill country.
Genesis 14:11
Their enemies took everything of value from Sodom and Gomorrah, including their food supplies.
Genesis 14:20
All praise belongs to God Most High for helping you defeat your enemies." Then Abram gave Melchizedek a tenth of everything.
Genesis 14:23
that I won't keep anything of yours, not even a sandal strap or a piece of thread. Then you can never say that you are the one who made me rich.
Genesis 15:20
the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaites,
Deuteronomy 3:11
King Og was the last of the Rephaim, and his coffin is in the town of Rabbah in Ammon. It is made of hard black rock and is thirteen and a half feet long and six feet wide.
Deuteronomy 3:20
The Lord will let them defeat the enemy nations on the west side of the Jordan and take their land. Afterwards, you can come back here to the land I gave you.
Joshua 12:4
Next, Moses and the Israelites defeated King Og of Bashan, who lived in the town of Ashtaroth part of each year and in Edrei the rest of the year. Og was one of the last of the Rephaim.
2 Samuel 5:18
So the Philistines camped in Rephaim Valley.
2 Samuel 5:22
Some time later, the Philistines came back into the hill country and camped in Rephaim Valley.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Also he took away out of all the cities of Judah the high places and the images,.... Perhaps the high places in 2 Chronicles 14:3 design only the high places and altars in Jerusalem, and near it; these in all the rest of the cities of the land; the "images were", as the word signifies, "sun images", either made in the form of the sun, or dedicated to it, or temples for it; 2 Chronicles 14:3- :,

and the kingdom was quiet before him; he had no foreign enemy to molest him, and so took that opportunity to reform divine worship, and in that he met with no opposition from his people.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Images - See the margin, sun-images; and Leviticus 26:30 note.


 
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