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2 Kings 23:11-13
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2 Kings 23:11-13
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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[a] close to where an official named Nathan-Melech lived.
12 (A) Some of the kings of Judah, especially Manasseh, had built altars in the two courts of the temple and in the room that Ahaz had built on the palace roof. Josiah had these altars torn down and smashed to pieces, and he had the pieces thrown into Kidron Valley, just outside Jerusalem. 13 (B) After that, he closed down the shrines that Solomon had built east of Jerusalem and south of Spoil Hill to honor Astarte the disgusting goddess of Sidon, Chemosh the disgusting god of Moab, and Milcom the disgusting god of Ammon.[b]
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2 Kings 23:11-13
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2 Kings 23:11-13
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11 He removed from the entrance to the temple of the Lord the horses that the kings of Judah(A) 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.(B)
12 He pulled down(C) the altars the kings of Judah had erected on the roof(D) near the upper room of Ahaz, and the altars Manasseh had built in the two courts(E) of the temple of the Lord. He removed them from there, smashed them to pieces and threw the rubble into the Kidron Valley.(F) 13 The king also desecrated the high places that were east of Jerusalem on the south of the Hill of Corruption—the ones Solomon(G) king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the vile goddess of the Sidonians, for Chemosh the vile god of Moab, and for Molek the detestable(H) god of the people of Ammon.(I)
Footnotes
- 2 Kings 23:11 The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.
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