12 Around the great courtyard, as well as the inner courtyard of the Lord’s temple and the portico of the temple, were three rows of dressed stone and a row of trimmed cedar beams.(A)

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12 The king tore down the altars that were on the roof(A)—Ahaz’s upper chamber(B) that the kings of Judah had made—and the altars that Manasseh had made(C) in the two courtyards of the Lord’s temple. Then he smashed them[a] there and threw their dust into the Kidron Valley.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 23:12 Text emended; MT reads he ran from

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