2 Chronicles 24:18

WEB

¹⁸They abandoned the house of the LORD, the God of their fathers, and served the Asherah poles and the idols, so wrath came on Judah and Jerusalem for this their guiltiness.

KJV

¹⁸And they left the house of the LORD God of their fathers, and served groves and idols: and wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem for this their trespass.

BSB

¹⁸They abandoned the house of the LORD, the God of their fathers, and served the Asherah poles and idols. So wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem for this guilt of theirs.

FBV

¹⁸They abandoned the Temple of the Lord, the God of their forefathers, and worshiped Asherah poles and idols. Judah and Jerusalem were punished because of their sin.

Extra References

Joshua 22:20

²⁰Didn’t Achan the son of Zerah commit a trespass in the devoted thing, and wrath fell on all the congregation of Israel? That man didn’t perish alone in his iniquity.’”

2 Chronicles 24:4

⁴After this, Joash intended to restore the LORD’s house.

²Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said to King Jehoshaphat, “Should you help the wicked, and love those who hate the LORD? Because of this, wrath is on you from before the LORD.

Ephesians 5:6

⁶Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.

2 Chronicles 32:25

²⁵But Hezekiah didn’t reciprocate appropriate to the benefit done for him, because his heart was lifted up. Therefore there was wrath on him, Judah, and Jerusalem.

1 Kings 14:23

²³For they also built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.

2 Chronicles 28:13

¹³and said to them, “You must not bring in the captives here, for you intend that which will bring on us a trespass against the LORD, to add to our sins and to our guilt; for our guilt is great, and there is fierce wrath against Israel.”

Hosea 5:10-11

¹⁰The princes of Judah are like those who remove a landmark. I will pour out my wrath on them like water. ¹¹Ephraim is oppressed, he is crushed in judgment, because he is intent in his pursuit of idols.

Zephaniah 1:4-6

⁴I will stretch out my hand against Judah and against all the inhabitants of Jerusalem. I will cut off the remnant of Baal from this place—the name of the idolatrous and pagan priests, ⁵those who worship the army of the sky on the housetops, those who worship and swear by the LORD and also swear by Malcam, ⁶those who have turned back from following the LORD, and those who haven’t sought the LORD nor inquired after him.

Exodus 34:13

¹³but you shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and you shall cut down their Asherah poles;