Then he tore down the ritual [a]booths (A)of the [b]perverted persons that were in the house of the Lord, (B)where the (C)women wove hangings for the wooden image.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 23:7 Lit. houses
  2. 2 Kings 23:7 Heb. qedeshim, those practicing sodomy and prostitution in religious rituals

He also tore down the quarters of the male shrine prostitutes(A) that were in the temple of the Lord, the quarters where women did weaving for Asherah.

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20 ‘As for the beauty of his ornaments,
He set it in majesty;
(A)But they made from it
The images of their abominations—
Their detestable things;
Therefore I have made it
Like refuse to them.

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20 They took pride in their beautiful jewelry
    and used it to make(A) their detestable idols.
They made it into vile images;(B)
    therefore I will make it a thing unclean for them.(C)

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For she did not (A)know
That I gave her grain, new wine, and oil,
And multiplied her silver and gold—
Which they prepared for Baal.

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She has not acknowledged(A) that I was the one
    who gave her the grain, the new wine and oil,(B)
who lavished on her the silver and gold(C)
    which they used for Baal.(D)

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