Lexicon :: Strong's G3179 - methistēmi

“He must not acquire many wives for himself so that his heart won’t go astray. He must not acquire very large amounts of silver and gold for himself.

“But if your heart turns away and you do not listen and you are led astray to bow in worship to other gods and serve them,

“My brothers who went with me caused the people to lose heart, but I followed the LORD my God completely.

So he brought the troops down to the water, and the LORD said to Gideon, “Separate everyone who laps water with his tongue like a dog. Do the same with everyone who kneels to drink.”

“If only these people were in my power, I would remove Abimelech.” So he said[fn] to Abimelech, “Gather your army and come out.”

So they got rid of the foreign gods among them and worshiped the LORD, and he became weary of Israel’s misery.

The cows went straight up the road to Beth-shemesh. They stayed on that one highway, lowing as they went; they never strayed to the right or to the left. The Philistine rulers were walking behind them to the territory of Beth-shemesh.

He also removed his grandmother[fn] Maacah from being queen mother because she had made an obscene image of Asherah. Asa chopped down her obscene image and burned it in the Kidron Valley.

All afternoon they kept on raving until the offering of the evening sacrifice, but there was no sound; no one answered, no one paid attention.

He did what was evil in the LORD’s sight, but not like his father and mother, for he removed the sacred pillar of Baal his father had made.

Yet the high places were not taken away; the people continued sacrificing and burning incense on the high places.

Finally, the LORD removed Israel from his presence just as he had declared through all his servants the prophets. So Israel has been exiled to Assyria from their homeland to this very day.

Pharaoh Neco imprisoned him at Riblah in the land of Hamath to keep him from reigning in Jerusalem, and he imposed on the land a fine of seventy-five hundred pounds[fn] of silver and seventy-five pounds[fn] of gold.

King Asa also removed Maacah, his grandmother,[fn] from being queen mother because she had made an obscene image of Asherah. Asa chopped down her obscene image, then crushed it and burned it in the Kidron Valley.

“Though the mountains move

and the hills shake,

my love will not be removed from you

and my covenant of peace will not be shaken,”

says your compassionate LORD.

Truth is missing,

and whoever turns from evil is plundered.

The LORD saw that there was no justice,

and he was offended.

He changes the times and seasons;

he removes kings and establishes kings.

He gives wisdom to the wise

and knowledge to those

who have understanding.

“As for the rest of the beasts, their dominion was removed, but an extension of life was granted to them for a certain period of time.

“But the court will convene, and his dominion will be taken away, to be completely destroyed forever.

“His forces will rise up and desecrate the temple fortress. They will abolish the regular sacrifice and set up the abomination of desolation.

Take away from me the noise of your songs!

I will not listen to the music of your harps.