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12 The king also tore down the altars that were on the roof of Ahaz’s upper story, which had been made by the Judean kings, and he did the same with the altars that Manasseh had built in the two courtyards of the Lord’s temple. He broke them up there[a] and threw their dust into the Kidron Valley. 13 The king then defiled the shrines facing Jerusalem, south of the Mountain of Destruction. Solomon the king of Israel had built these for Ashtoreth, the monstrous Sidonian god, for Chemosh, the monstrous Moabite god, and for Milcom, the detestable Ammonite god. 14 He smashed the sacred pillars and cut down the sacred poles,[b] filling the places where they had been with human bones.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 23:12 Correction; MT removed them quickly or ran from there
  2. 2 Kings 23:14 Heb asherim, perhaps objects devoted to the goddess Asherah

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