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2 Kings 23:2–6

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2And the king went up to the house of Yahweh and all the men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with him, and the priests and the prophets and all the people, both small and great; and ahe read in their hearing all the words of the book of the covenant bwhich was found in the house of Yahweh.

3aThen the king stood by the pillar and cut a covenant before Yahweh, bto walk after Yahweh, and to keep His commandments and His testimonies and His statutes with all his heart and all his soul, to establish the words of this covenant that were written in this book. And all the people 1entered into the covenant.

4Then the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest and athe priests of the second order and the 1doorkeepers, bto bring out of the temple of Yahweh all the vessels that were made for Baal, for 2Asherah, and for all the host of heaven; and che burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron, and carried their ashes to Bethel.

5And he did away with the idolatrous priests whom the kings of Judah had appointed and who burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah and in the surrounding area of Jerusalem, as well as those who burned incense to Baal, to the sun and to the moon and to the constellations and to all the ahost of heaven.

6And he brought out the Asherah from the house of Yahweh outside Jerusalem to the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and aground it to dust, and bthrew its dust on the graves of the 1common people.

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Footnotes

  1. 1Lit took a stand in
  2. 1Lit keepers of the threshold
  3. 2A wooden symbol of a female deity, so in ch
  4. 1Lit sons of the people

Cross references

  1. aDeut 31:10–13
  2. b2 Kin 22:8
  3. a2 Kin 11:14, 17
  4. bDeut 13:4
  5. a2 Kin 25:18; Jer 52:24
  6. b2 Kin 21:3, 7; 2 Chr 33:3
  7. c2 Kin 23:15
  8. a2 Kin 21:3
  9. a2 Kin 23:15
  10. b2 Chr 34:4