2 Kings 23:12

And the altars that were on the roof of the upper chamber of Achaz, which the kings of Juda had made, and the altars which Manasses had made in the two courts of the house of the Lord, did the king pull down and forcibly remove from thence, and cast their dust into the brook of Kedron.

LXX2012 (US English)

In The King James Version

And the altars that were on the top of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the LORD, did the king beat down, and brake them down from thence, and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron.

In Context

11And he burned the horses which the king of Juda had given to the sun in the entrance of the house of the Lord, + 23:11 Gr. to. by the treasury of Nathan the + 23:11 Heb. Nathan-melech. king's eunuch, in the + 23:11 Gr. again from the Heb. suburbs; and he burned the chariot of the sun with fire.

13And the king defiled the house that was before Jerusalem, on the right hand of the mount of Mosthath, which Solomon king of Israel built to Astarte the abomination of the Sidonians, and to Chamos the abomination of Moab, and to Moloch the abomination of the children of Ammon.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 22:8If you should build a new house, then shall you make a parapet to your house; so you shall not bring blood-guiltiness upon your house, if one should in any wise fall from it.

2 Kings 10:26And they brought out the pillar of Baal, and burnt it.

2 Kings 21:5And he built an altar to all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the Lord.

2 Kings 23:4And the king commanded Chelcias the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and them that kept the door, to bring out of the temple of the Lord all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the grove, and all the host of heaven, and he burned them without Jerusalem in the + 23:4 The Gr. is from the Heb. word. fields of Kedron, and + 23:4 Gr. cast. took the ashes of them to Baethel.

2 Chronicles 15:16And he removed Maacha his mother from being priestess to Astarte; and he cut down the idol, and burnt it in the brook of Kedron.

2 Chronicles 33:15And he removed the strange gods, and the graven image out of the house of the Lord, and all the altars which he had built in the mount of the house of the Lord, and in Jerusalem, and without the city.

Matthew Henry on 2 Kings 23:5-25

Josiah Reforms Judah. ( b. c. 623.) 4 And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the door, to bring forth out of the temple of the Lord all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the grove, and for all the host of heaven: and he burned them without Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and carried the ashes of them unto Beth-el. 5 And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the… Read the whole commentary →

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