2 Kings 23:12

WEB

¹²The king broke down the altars that were on the roof of the upper room of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the LORD’s house, and beat them down from there, and cast their dust into the brook Kidron.

KJV

¹²And 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.

BSB

¹²He pulled down the altars that the kings of Judah had set up on the roof near the upper chamber of Ahaz, and the altars that Manasseh had set up in the two courtyards of the house of the LORD. The king pulverized them there ^[+] and threw their dust into the Kidron Valley.

FBV

¹²He demolished the altars that the kings of Judah had set up on the roof near the upper chamber of Ahaz, and the altars Manasseh had placed in the two courtyards of the Lord's Temple. The king smashed them to pieces and scattered them in the Kidron Valley.

Extra References

Jeremiah 19:13

¹³The houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah, which are defiled, will be as the place of Topheth, even all the houses on whose roofs they have burned incense to all the army of the sky and have poured out drink offerings to other gods.”’”

2 Kings 21:5

⁵He built altars for all the army of the sky in the two courts of the LORD’s house.

Zephaniah 1:5

⁵those who worship the army of the sky on the housetops, those who worship and swear by the LORD and also swear by Malcam,

2 Chronicles 33:5

⁵He built altars for all the army of the sky in the two courts of the LORD’s house.

2 Kings 21:21-22

²¹He walked in all the ways that his father walked in, and served the idols that his father served, and worshiped them; ²²and he abandoned the LORD, the God of his fathers, and didn’t walk in the way of the LORD.

2 Kings 23:6

⁶He brought out the Asherah from the LORD’s house, outside of Jerusalem, to the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and beat it to dust, and cast its dust on the graves of the common people.

2 Chronicles 33:15

¹⁵He took away the foreign gods and the idol out of the LORD’s house, and all the altars that he had built in the mountain of the LORD’s house and in Jerusalem, and cast them out of the city.

2 Kings 23:4

⁴The king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the threshold, to bring out of the LORD’s temple all the vessels that were made for Baal, for the Asherah, and for all the army of the sky; and he burned them outside of Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron, and carried their ashes to Bethel.

Deuteronomy 22:8

⁸When you build a new house, then you shall make a railing around your roof, so that you don’t bring blood on your house if anyone falls from there.