¹⁶ You took some of your garments to make gaudy high places,^(A) where you carried on your prostitution.^(B) You went to him, and he possessed your beauty.^[a]

⁷ He also tore down the quarters of the male shrine prostitutes^(A) that were in the temple of the Lord, the quarters where women did weaving for Asherah.

²⁴ Ahaz gathered together the furnishings^(A) from the temple of God^(B) and cut them in pieces. He shut the doors^(C) of the Lord’s temple and set up altars^(D) at every street corner in Jerusalem.