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2 Kings 23:7

Context
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He tore down the quarters 1  of the male cultic prostitutes in the Lord’s temple, where women were weaving shrines 2  for Asherah.

XREF

Ge 19:4,5; Ex 35:25,26; 1Ki 14:24; 1Ki 15:12; 1Ki 22:46; 2Ch 34:33; Eze 8:14; Eze 16:16; Ho 2:13; Ro 1:26,27

NET © Notes

tn Or “cubicles.” Heb “houses.”

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.



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