12 The king tore down the altars that were on the roof(A)—Ahaz’s upper chamber(B) that the kings of Judah had made—and the altars that Manasseh had made(C) in the two courtyards of the Lord’s temple. Then he smashed them[a] there and threw their dust into the Kidron Valley. 13 The king also defiled the high places that were across from Jerusalem, to the south of the Mount of Destruction, which King Solomon of Israel had built for Ashtoreth, the detestable idol of the Sidonians; for Chemosh, the detestable idol of Moab; and for Milcom, the abomination of the Ammonites.(D) 14 He broke the sacred pillars into pieces,(E) cut down the Asherah poles,(F) then filled their places with human bones.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 23:12 Text emended; MT reads he ran from

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