And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest and the priests (A)of the second order and the keepers of the threshold to bring out of the temple of the Lord all the vessels made for (B)Baal, for (C)Asherah, and for all the host of heaven. (D)He burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron and carried their ashes to Bethel.

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The king ordered Hilkiah the high priest, the priests next in rank and the doorkeepers(A) to remove(B) from the temple of the Lord all the articles made for Baal and Asherah and all the starry hosts. He burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron Valley and took the ashes to Bethel.

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And he brought out (A)the Asherah from the house of the Lord, outside Jerusalem, to the brook Kidron, (B)and burned it at the brook Kidron (C)and beat it to dust and cast the dust of it upon the graves (D)of the common people.

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He took the Asherah pole from the temple of the Lord to the Kidron Valley(A) outside Jerusalem and burned it there. He ground it to powder(B) and scattered the dust over the graves(C) of the common people.(D)

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12 And the altars (A)on the roof of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars (B)that Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the Lord, he pulled down and broke in pieces[a] and cast the dust of them (C)into the brook Kidron.

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  1. 2 Kings 23:12 Hebrew pieces from there

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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