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2 Kings 23:9-11
Contemporary English Version
2 Kings 23:9-11
Contemporary English Version
9 Those local priests could not serve at the Lord's altar in Jerusalem, but they were allowed to eat sacred bread,[a] just like the priests from Jerusalem.
10 (A) Josiah sent some men to Hinnom Valley just outside Jerusalem with orders to make the altar there unfit for worship. That way, people could no longer use it for sacrificing their children to the god Molech. 11 He also got rid of the horses that the kings of Judah used in their ceremonies to worship the sun, and he destroyed the chariots along with them. The horses had been kept near the entrance to the Lord's temple, in a courtyard[b] close to where an official named Nathan-Melech lived.
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- 23.9 sacred bread: The Hebrew text has “thin bread,” which may be either the pieces of thin bread made without yeast to be eaten during the Passover Festival (see verses 21-23) or the baked flour used in sacrifices to give thanks to the Lord (see Leviticus 2.4,5).
- 23.11 in a courtyard: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.
2 Kings 23:9-11
New International Version
2 Kings 23:9-11
New International Version
9 Although the priests of the high places did not serve(A) at the altar of the Lord in Jerusalem, they ate unleavened bread with their fellow priests.
10 He desecrated Topheth,(B) which was in the Valley of Ben Hinnom,(C) so no one could use it to sacrifice their son(D) or daughter in the fire to Molek. 11 He removed from the entrance to the temple of the Lord the horses that the kings of Judah(E) had dedicated to the sun. They were in the court[a] near the room of an official named Nathan-Melek. Josiah then burned the chariots dedicated to the sun.(F)
Footnotes
- 2 Kings 23:11 The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.
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