2 KINGS 23:12 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“And the altars that were on the top of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the Lord, did the king beat down, and brake them down from thence, and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron.”
The altars on the roof of the upper chamber of Ahaz the king of Judah, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars that Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the LORD, he pulled down from there, and broke them in pieces, and threw the pieces into the Kidron Valley — Josiah systematically dismantles altars erected in various locations: on Ahaz's roof chamber, throughout Manasseh's temple altars. The specific reference to Manasseh's altars 'in the two courts' invokes the comprehensive desecration Manasseh had accomplished, now systematically reversed. Breaking the altars into pieces and scattering them in the Kidron Valley ensures permanent destruction.
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