John Gill's Exposition on 2 Chronicles 14:3

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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For he took away the altars of the strange gods, etc.] Or of a strange people, of the Zidonians, Ammonites, and Moabites, which had remained from the times of Solomon, and which he built for his wives, (<111107>1 Kings 11:7,8) and the high places; built for idols; for as for those on which the true God was worshipped, they were not removed in his days, (<111514>1 Kings 15:14) and brake down the images: or statues, or pillars, erected to the honour of idols, and on which the images of them were placed: and cut down the groves; in the midst of which they stood.

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