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He took the pole dedicated to the goddess Asherah from the temple to the Kidron Valley outside Jerusalem. He burned it in the Kidron Valley, ground it to dust, and threw its ashes on the tombs of the common people. He tore down the houses of the male temple prostitutes who were in Yahweh’s temple, where women did weaving for Asherah.

He brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah from Geba to Beersheba and made the places where those priests sacrificed unclean.[a] He tore down the worship site at the entrance of the Gate of Joshua, the gate named after the mayor of the city. (The worship site was to the left of anyone going through the city gate.)

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 23:8 “Unclean” refers to anything that Moses’ Teachings say is not presentable to God.

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