2 Kings 18:22
And if you say to me, Our hope is in the Lord our God: is it not he, whose high places and altars Hezekiah has taken away, saying to Judah and Jerusalem that worship may only be given before this altar in Jerusalem?
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2 Kings 18:22
And if you say to me, Our hope is in the Lord our God: is it not he, whose high places and altars Hezekiah has taken away, saying to Judah and Jerusalem that worship may only be given before this altar in Jerusalem?
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Isaiah 36:7
And if you say to me, Our hope is in the Lord our God; is it not he whose high places and altars Hezekiah has taken away, saying to Judah and Jerusalem that worship may only be given before this altar?
2 Kings 18:4
He had the high places taken away, and the stone pillars broken to bits, and the Asherah cut down; and the brass snake which Moses had made was crushed to powder at his order, because in those days the children of Israel had offerings burned before it, and he gave it the name Nehushtan.
2 Kings 18:5
He had faith in the Lord, the God of Israel; so that there was no one like him among all the kings of Judah who were before him.
2 Chronicles 32:12
Has not this same Hezekiah taken away his high places and his altars, saying to Judah and Jerusalem, Give worship before one altar only, burning offerings on it?
2 Chronicles 31:1
Now when all this was over, all the men of Israel who were present went out into the towns of Judah, causing the stone pillars to be broken up and the wood pillars to be cut down, pulling down the high places and the altars in all Judah and Benjamin, as well as in Ephraim and Manasseh, till all were gone. Then all the children of Israel went back to their towns, every man to his property.
2 Kings 21:3
He put up again the high places which had been pulled down by Hezekiah his father; he made altars for Baal, and an Asherah, as Ahab, king of Israel, had done; he was a worshipper and servant of all the stars of heaven.
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2 Kings 18:18
And they sent for the king, and Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, who was over the house, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder, came out to them.
2 Kings 18:19
And the Rab-shakeh said to them, Say now to Hezekiah, These are the words of the great king, the king of Assyria: In what are you placing your hope?
2 Kings 18:20
You say you have a design, and strength for war, but these are only words. Now to whom are you looking for support, that you have gone against my authority?
2 Kings 18:21
See, now, you are basing your hope on that broken rod of Egypt, which will go through a man's hand if he makes use of it for a support; for so is Pharaoh, king of Egypt, to all who put their faith in him.
2 Kings 18:22
And if you say to me, Our hope is in the Lord our God: is it not he, whose high places and altars Hezekiah has taken away, saying to Judah and Jerusalem that worship may only be given before this altar in Jerusalem?
2 Kings 18:23
And now, take a chance with my master, the king of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able to put horsemen on them.
2 Kings 18:24
How then may you put to shame the least of my master's servants? and you have put your hope in Egypt for war-carriages and horsemen:
2 Kings 18:25
And have I now come up to send destruction on this place without the Lord's authority? It was the Lord himself who said to me, Go up against this land and make it waste.
2 Kings 18:26
Then Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, and Shebna and Joah said to the Rab-shakeh, Will you kindly make use of the Aramaean language in talking to your servants, for we are used to it, and do not make use of the Jews' language in the hearing of the people on the wall.
2 Kings 18:27
But the Rab-shakeh said to them, Is it to your master or to you that my master has sent me to say these words? has he not sent me to the men seated on the wall? for they are the people who will be short of food with you when the town is shut in.
2 Kings 18:33
Has any one of the gods of the nations kept his land from falling into the hands of the king of Assyria?
2 Kings 18:34
Where are the gods of Hamath and of Arpad? where are the gods of Sepharvaim, of Hena and Ivvah? have they kept Samaria out of my hands?
2 Kings 18:35
Who among all the gods of these countries have kept their country from falling into my hands, to give cause for the thought that the Lord will keep Jerusalem from falling into my hands?
2 Kings 18:29
This is what the king says: Do not be tricked by Hezekiah, for there is no salvation for you in him.
2 Kings 18:30
And do not let Hezekiah make you put your faith in the Lord, saying, The Lord will certainly keep us safe, and this town will not be given into the hands of the king of Assyria.
2 Kings 19:10
This is what you are to say to Hezekiah, king of Judah: Let not your God, in whom is your faith, give you a false hope, saying, Jerusalem will not be given into the hands of the king of Assyria.
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Numbers 23:1
And Balaam said to Balak, Make me here seven altars and get ready seven oxen and seven male sheep.
Isaiah 17:8
He will not be looking to the altars, the work of his hands, or to the wood pillars or to the sun-images which his fingers have made.
Jeremiah 11:13
For the number of your gods is as the number of your towns, O Judah; and for every street in Jerusalem you have put up altars to the Baal for burning perfumes to the Baal.
Hosea 8:11
Because Ephraim has been increasing altars for sin, altars have become a cause of sin to him.
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Judges 17:13
Then Micah said, Now I am certain that the Lord will do me good, seeing that the Levite has become my priest.
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1 Kings 15:14
The high places, however, were not taken away: but still the heart of Asa was true to the Lord all his life.
1 Kings 22:43
He did as Asa his father had done, not turning away from it, but doing what was right in the eyes of the Lord; but the high places were not taken away: the people went on making offerings and burning them in the high places.
2 Kings 12:3
But the high places were not taken away; the people went on making offerings and burning them in the high places.
2 Kings 14:4
But still the high places were not taken away; the people went on making offerings and burning them in the high places.
2 Kings 15:4
But he did not take away the high places, and the people still went on making offerings and burning them in the high places.
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2 Chronicles 32:7
Be strong and take heart; have no fear, and do not be troubled on account of the king of Assyria and all the great army with him: for there is a greater with us.
2 Chronicles 32:8
With him is an arm of flesh; but we have the Lord our God, helping us and fighting for us. And the people put their faith in what Hezekiah, king of Judah, said.
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