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New Living Translation

2 Chronicles 30:14

They set to work and removed the pagan altars from Jerusalem. They took away all the incense altars and threw them into the Kidron Valley.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Iconoclasm;   Idolatry;   Month;   Thompson Chain Reference - Awakenings and Religious Reforms;   Awakenings, Religious;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Passover;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Hezekiah;   Jerusalem;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Gods and Goddesses, Pagan;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Kidron;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Judah, Kingdom of;   Kedron;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Kidron Valley;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Chronicles, I;   Passover and Feast of Unleavened Bread;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Entry into Jerusalem;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Hezekiah;   Kidron;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Sama'ria, Country of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Kidron, the Brook;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Censer;   Kidron;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
They proceeded to take away the altars that were in Jerusalem, and they took away the incense altars and threw them into the Kidron Valley.
Hebrew Names Version
They arose and took away the altars that were in Yerushalayim, and all the altars for incense took they away, and cast them into the brook Kidron.
King James Version
And they arose and took away the altars that were in Jerusalem, and all the altars for incense took they away, and cast them into the brook Kidron.
English Standard Version
They set to work and removed the altars that were in Jerusalem, and all the altars for burning incense they took away and threw into the brook Kidron.
New Century Version
The people removed the altars and incense altars to gods in Jerusalem and threw them into the Kidron Valley.
New English Translation
They removed the altars in Jerusalem; they also removed all the incense altars and threw them into the Kidron Valley.
Amplified Bible
They took action and removed the [pagan] altars which were in Jerusalem; they also removed all the incense altars and threw them into the Brook Kidron [the dumping place for the ashes of such repulsive things].
New American Standard Bible
They got up and removed the altars which were in Jerusalem; they also removed all the incense altars and threw them into the brook Kidron.
World English Bible
They arose and took away the altars that were in Jerusalem, and all the altars for incense took they away, and cast them into the brook Kidron.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And they arose, and tooke away the altars that were in Ierusalem: and all those for incense tooke they away, and cast them into the brooke Kidron.
Legacy Standard Bible
And they arose and took away the altars which were in Jerusalem; they also took away all the incense altars and cast them into the brook Kidron.
Berean Standard Bible
They proceeded to remove the altars in Jerusalem and to take away the incense altars and throw them into the Kidron Valley.
Contemporary English Version
They took all the foreign altars and incense altars in Jerusalem and threw them into Kidron Valley.
Complete Jewish Bible
First they set about removing the altars that were in Yerushalayim, and they also removed all the altars for incense and threw them in Vadi Kidron.
Darby Translation
And they rose up and took away the altars that were in Jerusalem; and they took away all the incense-altars, and cast them into the torrent Kidron.
Easy-to-Read Version
The people took away the altars in Jerusalem that were for false gods and all the incense altars that were for false gods. They threw them into the Kidron Valley.
George Lamsa Translation
And they arose and demolished the altars that were in Jerusalem, and they destroyed all the shrines of idols and cast them into the brook Kidron.
Good News Translation
They took all the altars that had been used in Jerusalem for offering sacrifices and burning incense and threw them into Kidron Valley.
Lexham English Bible
And they rose up and removed the altars that were in Jerusalem. And they removed all the incense altars and threw them away in the Wadi Kidron.
Literal Translation
And they rose up and took away the altars in Jerusalem, and all the incense altars they removed, and threw them into the torrent Kidron.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And they gat them vp, and put downe ye altares that were at Ierusalem, and all the incense put they awaye, and cast it in to the broke Cedron,
American Standard Version
And they arose and took away the altars that were in Jerusalem, and all the altars for incense took they away, and cast them into the brook Kidron.
Bible in Basic English
And they got to work and took away all the altars in Jerusalem, and they put all the vessels for burning perfumes into the stream Kidron.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And they arose, and remoued the aulters that were in Hierusalem: And all the aulters for incense did they away, and cast them into the brooke Cedron.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And they arose and took away the altars that were in Jerusalem, and all the altars for incense took they away, and cast them into the brook Kidron.
King James Version (1611)
And they arose and tooke away the altars that were in Ierusalem, and all the altars for incense tooke they away, and cast them into the brooke Kidron.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And they arose, and took away the altars that were in Jerusalem, and all on which they burnt incense to false gods they tore down and cast into the brook Kedron.
English Revised Version
And they arose and took away the altars that were in Jerusalem, and all the altars for incense took they away, and cast them into the brook Kidron.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And thei risiden, and destrieden the auteris, that weren in Jerusalem; and `thei destriynge alle thingis in whiche encense was brent to idols, castiden forth in to the stronde of Cedron.
Update Bible Version
And they arose and took away the altars that were in Jerusalem, and all the altars for incense they took away, and cast them into the brook Kidron.
Webster's Bible Translation
And they arose and took away the altars that [were] in Jerusalem, and all the altars for incense they took away, and cast [them] into the brook Kidron.
New King James Version
They arose and took away the altars that were in Jerusalem, and they took away all the incense altars and cast them into the Brook Kidron.
New Life Bible
They took away the altars which were in Jerusalem. And they also took away all the special perfume altars and threw them into the river of Kidron.
New Revised Standard
They set to work and removed the altars that were in Jerusalem, and all the altars for offering incense they took away and threw into the Wadi Kidron.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then rose they up, and removed the altars, which were in Jerusalem,-and, all the censers, removed they, and cast them into the Kidron ravine.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And they arose and destroyed the altars that were in Jerusalem, and took away all things in which incense was burnt to idols and cast them into the torrent Cedron.
Revised Standard Version
They set to work and removed the altars that were in Jerusalem, and all the altars for burning incense they took away and threw into the Kidron valley.
Young's Literal Translation
And they arise and turn aside the altars that [are] in Jerusalem, and all the perfume altars they have turned aside, and cast [them] to the brook Kidron;
New American Standard Bible (1995)
They arose and removed the altars which were in Jerusalem; they also removed all the incense altars and cast them into the brook Kidron.

Contextual Overview

13 So a huge crowd assembled at Jerusalem in midspring to celebrate the Festival of Unleavened Bread. 14 They set to work and removed the pagan altars from Jerusalem. They took away all the incense altars and threw them into the Kidron Valley. 15 On the fourteenth day of the second month, one month later than usual, the people slaughtered the Passover lamb. This shamed the priests and Levites, so they purified themselves and brought burnt offerings to the Temple of the Lord . 16 Then they took their places at the Temple as prescribed in the Law of Moses, the man of God. The Levites brought the sacrificial blood to the priests, who then sprinkled it on the altar. 17 Since many of the people had not purified themselves, the Levites had to slaughter their Passover lamb for them, to set them apart for the Lord . 18 Most of those who came from Ephraim, Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun had not purified themselves. But King Hezekiah prayed for them, and they were allowed to eat the Passover meal anyway, even though this was contrary to the requirements of the Law. For Hezekiah said, "May the Lord , who is good, pardon those 19 who decide to follow the Lord , the God of their ancestors, even though they are not properly cleansed for the ceremony." 20 And the Lord listened to Hezekiah's prayer and healed the people.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

altars: 2 Chronicles 28:24, 2 Chronicles 34:4, 2 Chronicles 34:7, 2 Kings 18:22, 2 Kings 23:12, 2 Kings 23:13, Isaiah 2:18-20

the brook: 2 Chronicles 15:16, 2 Chronicles 29:16, 2 Samuel 15:23, John 18:1, Cedron

Reciprocal: 2 Chronicles 31:1 - images 2 Chronicles 32:4 - the brook 2 Chronicles 33:3 - which Hezekiah 2 Chronicles 34:3 - the high places Isaiah 36:7 - is it not

Cross-References

Genesis 25:30
Esau said to Jacob, "I'm starved! Give me some of that red stew!" (This is how Esau got his other name, Edom, which means "red.")
Song of Solomon 7:13
There the mandrakes give off their fragrance, and the finest fruits are at our door, new delights as well as old, which I have saved for you, my lover.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And they arose,.... Before they slew and ate the passover:

and took away the altars that were in Jerusalem; which Ahaz had set up in every corner of Jerusalem, to offer sacrifices upon, 2 Chronicles 28:24

and all the altars for incense took they away; for as there were some to offer sacrifices on, there were others to burn incense upon, not to the Lord, but to idols, as the Targum adds:

and cast them into the brook Kidron; having reduced them to dust and ashes, see 2 Chronicles 29:16.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The continuance of the idolatrous altars to this time shows that Hezekiah had been more anxious to construct than to destroy, to establish the Yahweh-worship than to root out idolatry. Now, however, that the more important work was done, the temple open, and the daily service restored, attention could be turned to the secondary object of removing from the city all traces of the late apostasy.


 
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