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And he brought out the Ashe '
rah from the house of the LORD ,
outside Jerusalem ,
to the brook Kidron ,
and burned it at the brook Kidron ,
and beat it to dust and cast the dust of it upon the graves of the common people .
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And he broke down the houses of the male cult prostitutes which were in the house of the LORD ,
where the women wove hangings for the Ashe '
rah .
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And he brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah ,
and defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense ,
from Geba to Beer-sheba ;
and he broke down the high places of the gates that were at the entrance of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city ,
which were on one '
s left at the gate of the city .
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However ,
the priests of the high places did not come up to the altar of the LORD in Jerusalem ,
but they ate unleavened bread among their brethren .
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And he defiled To '
pheth ,
which is in the valley of the sons of Hinnom ,
that no one might burn his son or his daughter as an offering to Molech .
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And he removed the horses that the kings of Judah had dedicated to the sun ,
at the entrance to the house of the LORD ,
by the chamber of Nathan-melech the chamberlain ,
which was in the precincts ;
and he burned the chariots of the sun with fire .
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And the altars on the roof of the upper chamber of Ahaz ,
which the kings of Judah had made ,
and the altars which Manas '
seh had made in the two courts of the house of the LORD ,
he pulled down and broke in pieces ,
and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron .
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And the king defiled the high places that were east of Jerusalem ,
to the south of the mount of corruption ,
which Solomon the king of Israel had built for Ash '
toreth the abomination of the Sido '
nians ,
and for Chemosh the abomination of Moab ,
and for Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites .
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And he broke in pieces the pillars ,
and cut down the Ashe '
rim ,
and filled their places with the bones of men .