2 Kings 23:20
"And he slew all the priests of the high places that were there upon the altars, and burned men's bones upon them, and returned to Jerusalem."
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- 2 Kings 11:18
"And all the people of the land went into the house of Baal, and brake it down; his altars and his images brake they in pieces thoroughly, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. And the priest appointed officers over the house of the LORD."
Read in chapter → - Exodus 22:20
"He that sacrificeth unto any god, save unto the LORD only, he shall be utterly destroyed."
Read in chapter → - 2 Kings 10:25
"And it came to pass, as soon as he had made an end of offering the burnt offering, that Jehu said to the guard and to the captains, Go in, and slay them; let none come forth. And they smote them with the edge of the sword; and the guard and the captains cast them out, and went to the city of the house of Baal."
Read in chapter → - 2 Chronicles 34:5
"And he burnt the bones of the priests upon their altars, and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem."
Read in chapter → - 1 Kings 18:40
"And Elijah said unto them, Take the prophets of Baal; let not one of them escape. And they took them: and Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon, and slew them there."
Read in chapter → - 1 Kings 13:2
"And he cried against the altar in the word of the LORD, and said, O altar, altar, thus saith the LORD; Behold, a child shall be born unto the house of David, Josiah by name; and upon thee shall he offer the priests of the high places that burn incense upon thee, and men's bones shall be burnt upon thee."
Read in chapter → - Isaiah 34:6
"The sword of the LORD is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness, and with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams: for the LORD hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Idumea."
Read in chapter → - Deuteronomy 13:5
"And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death; because he hath spoken to turn you away from the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to thrust thee out of the way which the LORD thy God commanded thee to walk in. So shalt thou put the evil away from the midst of thee."
Read in chapter → - Zechariah 13:2
"And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD of hosts, that I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they shall no more be remembered: and also I will cause the prophets and the unclean spirit to pass out of the land."
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