For he took away
cuwr (soor)
to turn off (literal or figurative)
the altars
mizbeach (miz-bay'-akh)
an altar -- altar.
of the strange
nekar (nay-kawr')
foreign, or (concretely) a foreigner, or (abstractly) heathendom -- alien, strange (+ -er).
gods and the high places
bamah (bam-maw')
an elevation -- height, high place, wave.
and brake down
shabar (shaw-bar')
to burst -- break (down, off, in pieces, up), broken(-hearted), bring to the birth, crush, destroy, hurt, quench, quite, tear
the images
matstsebah (mats-tsay-baw')
something stationed, i.e. a column or (memorial stone); by analogy, an idol -- garrison, (standing) image, pillar.
and cut down
gada` (gaw-dah')
to fell a tree; generally, to destroy anything -- cut (asunder, in sunder, down, off), hew down.
the groves
'asherah (ash-ay-raw')
happy; Asherah (or Astarte) a Phoenician goddess; also an image of the same -- grove.
