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Then the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest and ^(f)the priests of the second order and the ^[b]doorkeepers, ^(g)to bring out of the temple of the Lord all the vessels that were made for Baal, for ^[c]Asherah, and for all the host of heaven; and ^(h)he burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron, and carried their ashes to Bethel.

He brought out the Asherah from the house of the Lord outside Jerusalem to the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and ^(j)ground it to dust, and ^(k)threw its dust on the graves of the ^[d]common people.

^(t)The altars which were on the roof, the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and ^(u)the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the Lord , the king broke down; and he ^[g]smashed them there and ^(v)threw their dust into the brook Kidron.