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2 Kings 23:6
New English Translation
2 Kings 23:6
New English Translation
6 He removed the Asherah pole from the Lord’s temple and took it outside Jerusalem to the Kidron Valley, where he burned it.[a] He smashed it to dust and then threw the dust in the public graveyard.[b]
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- 2 Kings 23:6 tn Heb “and he burned it in the Kidron Valley.”
- 2 Kings 23:6 tc Heb “on the grave of the sons of the people.” Some Hebrew, Greek, Syriac, Aramaic, and Latin witnesses read the plural “graves.” tn The phrase “sons of the people” refers here to the common people (see BDB 766 s.v. עַם), as opposed to the upper classes who would have private tombs.
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