2 Chronicles 15:16
Old Testament • 18 words with Strong's data
"And also concerning Maachah the mother of Asa the king, he removed her from being queen, because she had made an idol in a grove: and Asa cut down her idol, and stamped it, and burnt it at the brook Kidron."
Word-by-Word Analysis
עַל
ʻal
{above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications}
אָבֵל בֵּית־מֲעַכָה
ʼÂbêl Bêyth-Măʻakâh
Abel of Beth-maakah, a place in Palestine
אֵם
ʼêm
a mother (as the bond of the family); in a wide sense (both literally and figuratively (like father))
אָסָא
ʼÂçâʼ
Asa, the name of a king and of a Levite
נָסַע
nâçaʻ
properly, to pull up, especially the tent-pins, i.e. start on ajourney
פָּנִים
pânîym
the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposi...
עָשָׂה
ʻâsâh
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application
אֱלִיל
ʼĕlîyl
good for nothing, by anal. vain or vanity; specifically an idol
אֲשֵׁרָה
ʼăshêrâh
Asherah (or Astarte) a Phoenician goddess; also an image of the same
אָסָא
ʼÂçâʼ
Asa, the name of a king and of a Levite
אֱלִיל
ʼĕlîyl
good for nothing, by anal. vain or vanity; specifically an idol
שָׂרַף
sâraph
to be (causatively, set) on fire
נַחַל
nachal
a stream, especially a winter torrent; (by implication) a (narrow) valley (in which a brook runs); also a shaft (of a mine)
קִדְרוֹן
Qidrôwn
Kidron, a brook near Jerusalem
Key Terms in This Verse
אֱלִיל ʼĕlîyl
good for nothing, by anal. vain or vanity; specifically an idol
Study H457 →אֱלִיל ʼĕlîyl
good for nothing, by anal. vain or vanity; specifically an idol
Study H457 →אֲשֵׁרָה ʼăshêrâh
Asherah (or Astarte) a Phoenician goddess; also an image of the same
Study H842 →אָבֵל בֵּית־מֲעַכָה ʼÂbêl Bêyth-Măʻakâh
Abel of Beth-maakah, a place in Palestine
Study H62 →נַחַל nachal
a stream, especially a winter torrent; (by implication) a (narrow) valley (in which a brook runs); also a shaft (of a mine)
Study H5158 →Cross References
And forty and one years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom.
Moreover the altar that was at Bethel, and the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had made, both that altar and the high place he brake down, and burned the high place...
But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves:
Three years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom.
And he brought out the grove from the house of the LORD, without Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and stamped it small to powder, and cast the powder thereof upon t...
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.
Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more.
And the altars that were on the top of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the LORD, did the king bea...
And he took the calf which they had made, and burnt it in the fire, and ground it to powder, and strawed it upon the water, and made the children of Israel drink of it.
But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire.
And when his friends heard of it, they went out to lay hold on him: for they said, He is beside himself.
Who said unto his father and to his mother, I have not seen him; neither did he acknowledge his brethren, nor knew his own children: for they have observed thy word, and kept thy covenant.
And 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 d...
And it shall come to pass, that when any shall yet prophesy, then his father and his mother that begat him shall say unto him, Thou shalt not live; for thou speakest lies in the name of the LORD: and ...
And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you.
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