12 Around the great courtyard, as well as the inner courtyard of the Lord’s temple and the portico of the temple, were three rows of dressed stone and a row of trimmed cedar beams.(A)

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12 The great courtyard was surrounded by a wall of three courses(A) of dressed stone and one course of trimmed cedar beams, as was the inner courtyard of the temple of the Lord with its portico.

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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.

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Footnotes

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

12 He pulled down(A) the altars the kings of Judah had erected on the roof(B) near the upper room of Ahaz, and the altars Manasseh had built in the two courts(C) of the temple of the Lord. He removed them from there, smashed them to pieces and threw the rubble into the Kidron Valley.(D)

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