2 Kings 23:6
He brought the Asherah pole from the house of the Lord to the Kidron Valley outside Jerusalem, and there he burned it, ground it to powder, and threw its dust on the graves of the common people.
And he brought out the grove from the house of the Lord, without Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and stamped it small to powder, and cast the powder thereof upon the graves of the children of the people.
He brought out the Asherah from the Lord’s house, outside of Jerusalem, to the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and beat it to dust, and cast its dust on the graves of the common people.
And he brought out the Asherah from the house of Jehovah, without Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and beat it to dust, and cast the dust thereof upon the graves of the common people.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- the grove
- Or rather, Asherah, or Astarte.
- 2 Kings 21:7; Judges 3:7; 1 Kings 14:23; 1 Kings 16:33; Jeremiah 17:2
- and burned
- Exodus 32:20; Deuteronomy 7:25; Deuteronomy 9:21
- the graves
- 2 Kings 10:27; 2 Chronicles 34:4