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Then he gathered together all the priests from the cities of Judah and defiled the high places from Geba to Beer-sheba, where the priests had burned incense. He also demolished the high places of the gates that had been erected to the left as one enters the city gate—that is, near the entrance operated by Joshua, the governor of the city. Nevertheless, the priests of the high places did not approach the Lord’s altar in Jerusalem, but instead they ate unleavened bread given to them by their[a] relatives.

10 He also defiled Topheth, which is located in the Ben-hinnom Valley,[b] so that no one would force his son or daughter to pass through the fire in dedication to Molech.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 23:9 Or bread among
  2. 2 Kings 23:10 So MT; LXX and MT variant read the valley of the descendants of Hinnom