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Nevertheless, the priests of the high places did not approach the Lord’s altar in Jerusalem, but instead they ate unleavened bread given to them by their[a] relatives.

10 He also defiled Topheth, which is located in the Ben-hinnom Valley,[b] so that no one would force his son or daughter to pass through the fire in dedication to Molech. 11 He abolished the horses that the kings of Judah had dedicated to the sun at the entrance to the Lord’s Temple, near the offices of Nathan-melech, the official, that were in the precincts. He also set fire to the chariots of the sun.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 23:9 Or bread among
  2. 2 Kings 23:10 So MT; LXX and MT variant read the valley of the descendants of Hinnom