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2 Kings 15:35

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15:35 But the high places were not eliminated; the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense on the high places. He built the Upper Gate to the Lord’s temple.

2 Kings 16:11

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16:11 Uriah the priest built an altar in conformity to the plans King Ahaz had sent from Damascus. 1  Uriah the priest finished it before King Ahaz arrived back from Damascus. 2 

2 Kings 23:13

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23:13 The king ruined the high places east of Jerusalem, south of the Mount of Destruction, 3  that King Solomon of Israel had built for the detestable Sidonian goddess Astarte, the detestable Moabite god Chemosh, and the horrible Ammonite god Milcom.

1 tn Heb “according to all that King Ahaz sent from Damascus.”

2 tn Heb “so Uriah the priest did, until the arrival of King Ahaz from Damascus.”

3 sn This is a derogatory name for the Mount of Olives, involving a wordplay between מָשְׁחָה (mashÿkhah), “anointing,” and מַשְׁחִית (mashÿkhit), “destruction.” See HALOT 644 s.v. מַשְׁחִית and M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 289.



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