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2 Chronicles 30:14
They proceeded to remove the altars in Jerusalem and to take away the incense altars and throw them into the Kidron Valley.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — During the second-month assembly for the Feast of Unleavened Bread in Jerusalem (2 Chronicles 30:13), the narrative records a physical cleansing operation immediately preceding the Passover slaughter on the fourteenth day (2 Chronicles 30:15).
The words — The text specifies וַ/יָּסִ֙ירוּ (va/i.ya.Si.ru), meaning "and they removed," and הַֽ/מִּזְבְּח֔וֹת (ha./miz.be.Chot), meaning "the altars."
The thread — The Kidron Valley appears as a geographical landmark when the king crosses it in 2 Samuel 15:23, while royal reforms that dismantle foreign cultic structures parallel the actions in 2 Chronicles 15:16.
Why it lands — The verse documents the literal removal and disposal of unauthorized altars before worship resumes, requiring readers to recognize that physical clearance of idolatrous sites precedes covenant renewal.
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The Hebrew words
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.
Cross-references
- 2 Chronicles 28:24 Then Ahaz gathered up the articles of the house of God, cut them into pieces, shut the doors of the house of the LORD, and set up altars of his own on every street corner in Jerusalem.
- 2 Samuel 15:23 Everyone in the countryside was weeping loudly as all the people passed by. And as the king crossed the Kidron Valley, all the people also passed toward the way of the wilderness.
- 2 Chronicles 15:16 King Asa also removed his grandmother Maacah from her position as queen mother because she had made a detestable Asherah pole. Asa chopped down the pole, crushed it, and burned it in the Kidron Valley.
- 2 Chronicles 29:16 So the priests went inside the house of the LORD to cleanse it, and they brought out to the courtyard all the unclean things that they found in the temple of the LORD. Then the Levites took these things and carried them out to the Kidron Valley.
- 2 Kings 18:22 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 removed, saying to Judah and Jerusalem: ‘You must worship before this altar in Jerusalem’?
- 2 Kings 23:12 He pulled down the altars that the kings of Judah had set up on the roof near the upper chamber of Ahaz, and the altars that Manasseh had set up in the two courtyards of the house of the LORD. The king pulverized them there and threw their dust into the Kidron Valley.
- 2 Chronicles 34:4 Then in his presence the altars of the Baals were torn down, and he cut to pieces the incense altars that were above them. He shattered the Asherah poles, the carved idols, and the cast images, crushed them to dust, and scattered them over the graves of those who had sacrificed to them.
- 2 Chronicles 34:7 He tore down the altars and Asherah poles, crushed the idols to powder, and cut to pieces all the incense altars throughout the land of Israel. Then he returned to Jerusalem.
- Isaiah 2:18 and the idols will vanish completely.
- John 18:1 After Jesus had spoken these words, He went out with His disciples across the Kidron Valley, where they entered a garden.