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And he put down the [a]idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the [b]planets, and to all the host of heaven. And he brought out the Asherah from the house of Jehovah, without Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and beat it to dust, and cast the dust thereof upon the graves of the [c]common people. And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that were in the house of Jehovah, where the women wove [d]hangings for the Asherah.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 23:5 Hebrew Chemarim. See Hos. 10:5; Zeph. 1:4.
  2. 2 Kings 23:5 Or, twelve signs
  3. 2 Kings 23:6 Hebrew children of the people.
  4. 2 Kings 23:7 Or, tents. Hebrew houses.