When Asa heard these words and the prophecy of Azariah son of Oded the prophet, he took courage and removed the detestable idols from the whole land of Judah and Benjamin and from the cities he had captured in the hill country of Ephraim. He then restored the altar of the LORD that was in front of the portico of the LORD’s temple.
Abijah pursued Jeroboam and captured some cities from him: Bethel, Jeshanah, and Ephron, along with their villages.
At that time Solomon offered burnt offerings to the LORD on the altar of the LORD he had built in front of the portico.
He made a bronze altar twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and ten cubits high.
The woman was dressed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls. She held in her hand
Then they went in to King Hezekiah and reported, “We have cleansed the entire house of the LORD, the altar of burnt offe
At that time on a hill east of Jerusalem, Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab and for Molech
The brothers there had heard about us and traveled as far as the Forum of Appius and the Three Taverns to meet us. When
sitting among the graves, spending nights in secret places, eating the meat of pigs and polluted broth from their bowls.
‘Cursed is the man who makes a carved idol or molten image—an abomination to the LORD, the work of the hands of a crafts
Note that Amariah, the chief priest, will be over you in all that pertains to the LORD, and Zebadiah son of Ishmael, the
And I will first repay them double their iniquity and their sin, because they have defiled My land with the carcasses of
He also took the bronze altar that stood before the LORD from the front of the temple (between the new altar and the hou
Solomon followed Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians and Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.
But if you say to me, ‘We trust in the LORD our God,’ is He not the One whose high places and altars Hezekiah has remove
The king also desecrated the high places east of Jerusalem, to the south of the Mount of Corruption, which King Solomon
So I went in and looked, and engraved all around the wall was every kind of crawling creature and detestable beast, alon
For you have spent enough time in the past carrying out the same desires as the Gentiles: living in debauchery, lust, dr
You must keep My charge not to practice any of the abominable customs that were practiced before you, so that you do not
He cuts down cedars or retrieves a cypress or oak. He lets it grow strong among the trees of the forest. He plants a lau