Quotes about Altars

On the altars he slaughtered all the priests of the high places, and he burned human bones on them. Then he returned to Jerusalem.

He also removed the high places and incense altars from all the cities of Judah, and under him the kingdom was at peace.

And he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.

They proceeded to remove the altars in Jerusalem and to take away the incense altars and throw them into the Kidron Valley.

When all this had ended, the Israelites in attendance went out to the cities of Judah and broke up the sacred pillars, chopped down the Asherah poles, and tore down the high places and altars throughout Judah and Benjamin, as well as in Ephraim and Manasseh, until they had utterly destroyed them all. Then all the Israelites returned to their cities, each to his own property.

For he rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had torn down, and he raised up altars for the Baals and made Asherah poles. And he worshiped and served all the host of heaven.

Manasseh also built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, “My Name will remain in Jerusalem forever.”

In both courtyards of the house of the LORD, he built altars to all the host of heaven.

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.

They will not look to the altars they have fashioned with their hands or to the Asherahs and incense altars they have made with their fingers.

Your gods are indeed as numerous as your cities, O Judah; the altars of shame you have set up—the altars to burn incense to Baal—are as many as the streets of Jerusalem.’

“The sin of Judah is written with an iron stylus, engraved with a diamond point on the tablets of their hearts and on the horns of their altars.