Discovery Box2 Kings 23:14 
Context23:14 He smashed the sacred pillars to bits, cut down the Asherah pole, and filled those shrines 1 with human bones.
2 Kings 17:32
Context17:32 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
Context23:7 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
Context17:29 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
Context23:19 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
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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