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2 Kings 23:7

New American Bible - revised edition

He tore down the apartments of the cult prostitutes in the house of the Lord, where the women wove garments for the Asherah.

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There were also pagan priests in the land. Judah imitated all the abominable practices of the nations whom the Lord had driven out of the Israelites’ way.

banishing the pagan priests from the land and removing all the idols his ancestors had made.

The rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, with his valor, what he did and how he fought, are recorded in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah.

Josiah removed every abomination from all the territories belonging to the Israelites, and he obliged all who were in Israel to serve the Lord, their God. During his lifetime they did not turn away from following the Lord, the God of their ancestors.

You took some of your garments and made for yourself gaudy high places, where you served as a prostitute. It has never happened before, nor will it happen again!

Then he brought me to the entrance of the north gate of the house of the Lord. There women sat and wept for Tammuz.

I will put an end to all her joy, her festivals, her new moons, her sabbaths— all her seasonal feasts.

On the mountaintops they offer sacrifice and on the hills they burn incense, Beneath oak and poplar and terebinth, because of their pleasant shade. Therefore your daughters prostitute themselves, and your daughters-in-law commit adultery.

I will not punish your daughters for their prostitution, nor your daughters-in-law for their adultery, Because the men themselves consort with prostitutes, and with temple women they offer sacrifice! Thus a people without understanding comes to ruin.

While Israel was living at Shittim, the people profaned themselves by prostituting themselves with the Moabite women.

Let them live among you in any place they choose, in any one of your communities that seems good to them. Do not oppress them.




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