26 And you must not bring a detestable thing into your house and actually become a thing devoted to destruction* like it. You should thoroughly loathe it and absolutely detest it,+ because it is something devoted to destruction.+

14 and my people+ upon whom my name+ has been called humble+ themselves and pray+ and seek my face+ and turn back from their bad ways,+ then I myself shall hear from the heavens+ and forgive their sin,+ and I shall heal their land.+

8 And as soon as Aʹsa heard these words and the prophecy of Oʹded+ the prophet, he took courage and proceeded to cause the disgusting things+ to vanish from all the land of Judah and Benjamin and from the cities that he had captured from the mountainous region of Eʹphra·im,+ and to renew Jehovah’s altar that was before the porch of Jehovah.+

15 And he proceeded to remove the foreign gods*+ and the idol image+ from the house of Jehovah and all the altars+ that he had built in the mountain of the house of Jehovah and in Jerusalem and then had them thrown outside the city.