THEOSIS2 Chronicles 14:3Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
And broke the statues, and cut down the groves.
וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ לִֽיהוּדָ֔ה לִדְר֕וֹשׁ אֶת־יְהוָ֖ה אֱלֹהֵ֣י אֲבוֹתֵיהֶ֑ם וְלַעֲשׂ֖וֹת הַתּוֹרָ֥ה וְהַמִּצְוָֽה׃
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- Deut 7:5But thus rather shall you deal with them: Destroy their altars, and break their statues, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven things.
- Ex 34:13But destroy their altars, break their statues and cut down their groves:
- 2 Chr 15:17But high places were left in Israel: nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect all his days.
- 2 Chr 34:4And they broke down before him the altars of Baalim, and demolished the idols that had been set upon them: and he cut down the groves and the graven things, and broke them in pieces: and strewed the fragments upon the graves of them that had sacrificed to them.
- Lev 26:30I will destroy your high places, and break your idols. You shall fall among the ruins of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you.
- Judg 6:25That night the Lord said to him: Take a bullock of thy father's, and another bullock of seven years, and thou shalt destroy the altar of Baal, which is thy father's: and cut down the grove that is about the altar:
- Judg 6:28And when the men of that town were risen in the morning, they saw the altar of Baal destroyed, and the grove cut down, and the second bullock laid upon the altar, which then was built.
- Deut 7:25Their graven things thou shalt burn with fire: thou shalt not covet the silver and gold of which they are made, neither shalt thou take to thee any thing thereof, lest thou offend, because it is an abomination to the Lord thy God.