Isaiah 36:7 References

7 "But if you say to me, 'We trust in the Lord our God,' is it not He awhose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has taken away and has said to Judah and to Jerusalem, 'You shall worship before this altar'?

a Deuteronomy 12:2-5, 2 Kings 18:4, 2 Kings 18:5


Deuteronomy 12

2 "You shall utterly destroy all the places where the nations whom you shall dispossess serve their gods, on the ahigh mountains and on the hills and under every green tree.
3 "aYou shall tear down their altars and smash their sacred pillars and burn their Asherim with fire, and you shall cut down the engraved images of their gods and bobliterate their name from that place.
4 "You shall not act like this toward the Lord your God.
5 "aBut you shall seek the Lord at the place which the Lord your God will choose from all your tribes, to establish His name there for His dwelling, and there you shall come.

2 Kings 18

4 aHe removed the high places and broke down the sacred pillars and cut down the Asherah. He also broke in pieces bthe bronze serpent that Moses had made, for until those days the sons of Israel burned incense to it; and it was called Nehushtan.

2 Kings 18

5 aHe trusted in the Lord, the God of Israel; bso that after him there was none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor among those who were before him.