2 Kings 23
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2 Kings 23:12-15

12He pulled down the altars that the kings of Judah had set up on the roof near the upper chamber of Ahaz, and the altars that Manasseh had set up in the two courtyards of the house of the LORD. The king pulverized them there1 and threw their dust into the Kidron Valley.

13The king also desecrated the high places east of Jerusalem, to the south of the Mount of Corruption, which King Solomon of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom2 the abomination of the Ammonites. 14He smashed the sacred pillars to pieces, cut down the Asherah poles, and covered the sites with human bones.

15He even pulled down the altar at Bethel, the high place set up by Jeroboam son of Nebat, who had caused Israel to sin. Then he burned3 the high place, ground it to powder, and burned the Asherah pole.

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  1. 1. 2 Kings 23:12 Or quickly removed them from there ↩
  2. 2. 2 Kings 23:13 Milcom is a variant of Molech; see Leviticus 18:21 and 1 Kings 11:7. ↩
  3. 3. 2 Kings 23:15 Hebrew; LXX broke into pieces ↩

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