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And the kingcommandedHilkiah the highpriest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the door, to bring forth out of the temple of the LORD all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the grove, and for all the host of heaven: and he burned them withoutJerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and carried the ashes of them unto Bethel.
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And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round aboutJerusalem; them also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven.
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And he brought out the grove from the house of the LORD,withoutJerusalem, unto the brookKidron, and burned it at the brookKidron, and stamped it small to powder, and cast the powder thereof upon the graves of the children of the people.
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And he brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense, from Geba to Beersheba, and brake down the high places of the gates that were in the entering in of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which were on a man's left hand at the gate of the city.
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Nevertheless the priests of the high places came not up to the altar of the LORD in Jerusalem, but they did eat of the unleavened breadamong their brethren.
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And he defiledTopheth, which is in the valley of the children* of Hinnom, that no man might make his son or his daughter to pass through the fire to Molech.
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And he took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the entering in of the house of the LORD, by the chamber of Nathanmelech the chamberlain, which was in the suburbs, and burned the chariots of the sun with fire.
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And the altars that were on the top of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the twocourts of the house of the LORD, did the king beat down, and brake them down from thence, and cast the dust of them into the brookKidron.
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And the high places that were beforeJerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had builded for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Zidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon, did the kingdefile.