New Revised Standard Version
He took away the foreign altars and the high places, broke down the pillars, hewed down the sacred poles,

Contemporary English Version
He destroyed the local shrines and the altars to foreign gods. He smashed the stone images of gods and cut down the sacred poles used in worshiping the goddess Asherah.

New American Bible
He removed the illicit altars and the high places, smashed the sacred pillars, and cut down the asherahs.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And broke the statues, and cut down the groves.

And broke the statues, and cut down the groves.

For he took

Deuteronomy 7:5 But thus rather shall you deal with them: Destroy their altars, and break their statues, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven things.

1 Kings 11:7,8 Then Solomon built a temple for Chamos, the idol of Moab, on the hill that is over against Jerusalem, and for Moloch, the idol of the children of Ammon. . . .

1 Kings 14:22-24 And Juda did evil in the sight of the Lord, and provoked him above all that their fathers had done, in their sins which they committed. . . .

the high places

2 Chronicles 15:17 But high places were left in Israel: nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect all his days.

Leviticus 26:30 I will destroy your high places, and break your idols. You shall fall among the ruins of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you.

1 Kings 15:12-14 And he took away the effeminate out of the land, and removed all the filth of the idols, which his fathers had made. . . .

brake

2 Chronicles 34:4 And they broke down before him the altars of Baalim, and demolished the idols that had been set upon them: and he cut down the groves and the graven things, and broke them in pieces: and strewed the fragments upon the graves of them that had sacrificed to them.

Exodus 34:13 But destroy their altars, break their statues and cut down their groves:

Deuteronomy 7:5,25 But thus rather shall you deal with them: Destroy their altars, and break their statues, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven things. . . .

images [heb] statue

2 Kings 23:14 And he broke in pieces the statues, and cut down the groves: and he filled their places with the bones of dead men.

cut down

Judges 6:25-28 That night the Lord said to him: Take a bullock of thy father's, and another bullock of seven years, and thou shalt destroy the altar of Baal, which is thy father's: and cut down the grove that is about the altar: . . .

1 Kings 11:7 Then Solomon built a temple for Chamos, the idol of Moab, on the hill that is over against Jerusalem, and for Moloch, the idol of the children of Ammon.

2 Kings 18:4 He destroyed the high places, and broke the statues in pieces, and cut down the groves, and broke the brazen serpent, which Moses had made: for till that time the children of Israel burnt incense to it: and he called its name Nohestan.

2 Kings 23:6,14 And he caused the grove to be carried out from the house of the Lord, without Jerusalem, to the valley of Cedron, and he burnt it there, and reduced it to dust, and cast the dust upon the graves of the common people. . . .