Quotes about Religion

Nevertheless, the people of each nation continued to make their own gods in the cities where they had settled, and they set them up in the shrines that the people of Samaria had made on the high places.

They worshiped the LORD, but they also served their own gods according to the customs of the nations from which they had been carried away.

Do not forget the covenant I have made with you. Do not worship other gods,

He removed the high places, shattered the sacred pillars, and cut down the Asherah poles. He also demolished the bronze snake called Nehushtan that Moses had made, for up to that time the Israelites had burned incense to it.

They have cast their gods into the fire and destroyed them, for they were not gods, but only wood and stone—the work of human hands.

Manasseh also built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, “In Jerusalem I will put My Name.”

In both courtyards of the house of the LORD, he built altars to all the host of heaven.

Manasseh even took the carved Asherah pole he had made and set it up in the temple, of which the LORD had said to David and his son Solomon, “In this temple and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will establish My Name forever.

He walked in all the ways of his father, and he served and worshiped the idols his father had served.

He also tore down the quarters of the male shrine prostitutes that were in the house of the LORD, where the women had woven tapestries for Asherah.

He smashed the sacred pillars to pieces, cut down the Asherah poles, and covered the sites with human bones.

Zadok son of Ahitub and Ahimelech son of Abiathar were priests; Shavsha was the scribe;