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2 Chronicles 34:7

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And when he had broken down the altars and the groves, and had beaten the graven images into powder, and cut down all the idols throughout all the land of Israel, he returned to Jerusalem.
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  1. 2 Chronicles 31:1Rank 1 from verse 7
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    1NOW when all this was finished, all Israel that were present went out to the cities of Judah, and brake the images in pieces, and cut down the groves, and threw down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, in Ephraim also and Manasseh, until they had utterly destroyed them all. Then all the children of Israel returned, every man to his possession, into their own cities.

  2. Deuteronomy 9:21Rank 2 from verse 7
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    21And I took your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it, and ground it very small, even until it was as small as dust: and I cast the dust thereof into the brook that descended out of the mount.

  3. 2 Chronicles 34:1Rank 3 from verse 7
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    1JOSIAH was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem one and thirty years.

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2 Chronicles 34:7

COMBINED MEANING

groves

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1. Groups of trees. 2. Objects or places connected with idolatrous worship.

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images

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Likenesses, representations, or visible forms; often idols when made or used as objects of worship.

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powder

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Fine, loose particles or dust; to reduce to powder is to break into such small particles.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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cut

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Sense 1: To divide, sever, remove, or wound with a sharp instrument. Sense 2: Figuratively, to grieve deeply or bring to an end.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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idols

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False objects of worship or devotion; images treated as gods.

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throughout

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Through every part, place, member, or extent of; all over; during or from beginning to end of the whole stated area, group, or period.

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land

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Sense 1: The ground or earth; a country, territory, or region. Sense 2: To set or come on shore.

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Israel

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The name given to Jacob and, by extension, his descendants, their nation, or the people so called.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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returned

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Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of return, meaning to go, come, send, or give back; to restore, answer, or turn again.

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6And so did he in the cities of Manasseh, and Ephraim, and Simeon, even unto Naphtali, with their mattocks round about.

7And when he had broken down the altars and the groves, and had beaten the graven images into powder, and cut down all the idols throughout all the land of Israel, he returned to Jerusalem.

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8¶ Now in the eighteenth year of his reign, when he had purged the land, and the house, he sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, and Maaseiah the governor of the city, and Joah the son of Joahaz the recorder, to repair the house of the Lord his God.

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