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and in the Lord’s name he cried aloud against the altar, Listen, thou altar, listen to a message from the Lord. I see a prince that is to come, born of David’s race, Josias by name, that shall sacrifice on thee the very priests who now feed thee with incense; the bones of dead men shall be thy sacrifice. (1 Kings 13, 2)
planted, too, a sacred wood, and did more to earn the Lord’s displeasure than any king of Israel in earlier times. (1 Kings 16, 33)
though indeed he did not abolish the hill-shrines; men still offered sacrifice and incense on the mountain-tops. (1 Kings 22, 44)
only he did not abolish the hill-shrines, men still sacrificed and burned incense on the mountain-tops. (2 Kings 12, 3)
he too left the hill-shrines standing, so that men still sacrificed and burned incense on the mountain-tops. (2 Kings 14, 4)
but did not destroy the hill-shrines; men still sacrificed and burned incense on the mountain tops. (2 Kings 15, 4)
but did not abolish the hill-shrines; men still sacrificed and offered incense on the mountain-tops. He it was built the high gate that leads into the Lord’s house. (2 Kings 15, 35)
Never a high hill or a mountain-slope or a leafy wood but Achaz must do sacrifice and offer incense there. (2 Kings 16, 4)
No high hill, no leafy wood, but had its images and its sacred trees; (2 Kings 17, 10)
and there they burnt incense on their altars, imitating the nations God had dispossessed before their onslaught. Foul deeds were done, to challenge the Lord’s anger, (2 Kings 17, 11)
Forgotten, all the commandments of the Lord their God; they must have two golden calves, they must have sacred trees, they must worship all the host of heaven, and become Baal’s servants; (2 Kings 17, 16)
scattered the hill-shrines, overthrew the images, cut down the sacred trees; broke in pieces, too, the brazen serpent Moses had made, because the Israelites, till his day, used to offer incense to it; the name given to it was Nohestan.✻ (2 Kings 18, 4)
