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2 Chronicles 14:3
New English Translation
2 Chronicles 14:3
New English Translation
3 He removed the pagan altars[a] and the high places, smashed the sacred pillars, and cut down the Asherah poles.[b]
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- 2 Chronicles 14:3 tn Heb “the altars of the foreigner.”
- 2 Chronicles 14:3 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 [ʾasherim], 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).
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