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He removed the highplaces and brokedown the sacred pillars and cutdown the Asherah. He also broke in pieces the bronzeserpent that Moses had made, for untilthosedays the sons of Israelburnedincense to it; and it was calledNehushtan.
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He trusted in the LORD, the God of Israel; so that after him there was nonelike him among all the kings of Judah, nor among those who were before him.
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Now in the fourthyear of KingHezekiah, which was the seventhyear of Hosheason of Elahking of Israel, Shalmaneserking of Assyriacame up againstSamaria and besieged* it.
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Then the king of AssyriacarriedIsraelaway into exile to Assyria, and put them in Halah and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes,
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because* they did not obey the voice of the LORD their God, but transgressed His covenant, even all that Moses the servant of the LORDcommanded; they would neitherlistennordo it.