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He ordered the altars of the Baals to be torn down,[a] and broke the incense altars that were above them. He smashed the Asherah poles, idols, and images, crushed them, and sprinkled the dust over the tombs of those who had sacrificed to them. He burned the bones of the pagan priests[b] on their altars; he purified Judah and Jerusalem. In the cities of Manasseh, Ephraim, and Simeon, as far as Naphtali, and in the ruins[c] around them,

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 34:4 tn Heb “and they tore down before him the altars of the Baals.”
  2. 2 Chronicles 34:5 tn Heb “the priests”; the qualifying adjective “pagan” has been supplied in the translation for clarity.
  3. 2 Chronicles 34:6 tn “In their ruins” is the marginal reading (Qere) of the Hebrew text.