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2 Kings 23:14

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12And the altars that were on the top of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the Lord, did the king beat down, and brake them down from thence, and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron.Select 2 Kings 23:12

13And the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had builded for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Zidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon, did the king defile.Select 2 Kings 23:13

14And he brake in pieces the images, and cut down the groves, and filled their places with the bones of men.Select 2 Kings 23:14

15Moreover the altar that was at Beth–el, and the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had made, both that altar and the high place he brake down, and burned the high place, and stamped it small to powder, and burned the grove.Select 2 Kings 23:15

16And as Josiah turned himself, he spied the sepulchres that were there in the mount, and sent, and took the bones out of the sepulchres, and burned them upon the altar, and polluted it, according to the word of the Lord which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these words.Select 2 Kings 23:16

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WEB

23:14 He broke in pieces the pillars, and cut down the Asherah poles, and filled their places with the bones of men.

ASV

23:14 And he brake in pieces the pillars, and cut down the Asherim, and filled their places with the bones of men.

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