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He even set a carved image of Asherah [fn] that he had made, in the house of which the Lord had said to David and to Solomon his son, "In this house and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put My name forever;

And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, the priests of the second order, and the doorkeepers, to bring out of the temple of the Lord all the articles that were made for Baal, for Asherah, [fn] and for all the host of heaven; [fn] and he burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and carried their ashes to Bethel.