2 Kings 23:14

23:14 He smashed the sacred pillars to bits, cut down the Asherah pole, and filled those shrines ¹  with human bones.

2 Kings 17:32

17:32 At the same time they worshiped ²  the Lord. They appointed some of their own people to serve as priests in the shrines on the high places. ³ 

2 Kings 23:7

23:7 He tore down the quarters ⁴  of the male cultic prostitutes in the Lord’s temple, where women were weaving shrines ⁵  for Asherah.

2 Kings 17:29

17:29 But each of these nations made ⁶  its own gods and put them in the shrines on the high places that the people of Samaria ⁷  had made. Each nation did this in the cities where they lived.

2 Kings 23:19

23:19 Josiah also removed all the shrines on the high places in the cities of Samaria. The kings of Israel had made them and angered the Lord. ⁸  He did to them what he had done to the high place in Bethel. ⁹ 

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¹ tn Heb “their places.”

² tn Heb “feared.”

³ tn Heb “and they appointed for themselves from their whole people priests for the high places and they were serving for them in the house[s] of the high places.”

⁴ tn Or “cubicles.” Heb “houses.”

⁵ tn Heb “houses.” Perhaps tent-shrines made from cloth are in view (see BDB 109 s.v. בַּיִת). M. Cogan and H. Tadmor (II Kings [AB], 286) understand this as referring to clothes made for images of the goddess.

⁶ sn The verb “make” refers to the production of idols. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 210-11.

⁷ tn Heb “Samaritans.” This refers to the Israelites who had been deported from the land.

⁸ tc Heb “which the kings of Israel had made, angering.” The object has been accidentally omitted in the MT. It appears in the LXX, Syriac, and Vulgate versions.

⁹ tn Heb “and he did to them according to all the deeds he had done in Bethel.”

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