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2 Chronicles 4:1

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4:1 He made a bronze altar, 30 feet 1  long, 30 feet 2  wide, and 15 feet 3  high.

2 Chronicles 6:12

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6:12 He stood before the altar of the Lord in front of the entire assembly of Israel and spread out his hands.

2 Chronicles 8:12

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8:12 Then Solomon offered burnt sacrifices to the Lord on the altar of the Lord which he had built in front of the temple’s porch. 4 

2 Chronicles 14:3

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14:3 He removed the pagan altars 5  and the high places, smashed the sacred pillars, and cut down the Asherah poles. 6 

2 Chronicles 33:4-5

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33:4 He built altars in the Lord’s temple, about which the Lord had said, “Jerusalem will be my permanent home.” 7  33:5 In the two courtyards of the Lord’s temple he built altars for all the stars in the sky.

2 Chronicles 34:5

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34:5 He burned the bones of the pagan priests 8  on their altars; he purified Judah and Jerusalem.
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[4:1]  1 tn Heb “twenty cubits.” Assuming a cubit of 18 inches (45 cm), the length would have been 30 feet (9 m).

[4:1]  2 tn Heb “twenty cubits.”

[4:1]  3 tn Heb “ten cubits.” Assuming a cubit of 18 inches (45 cm), the height would have been 15 feet (4.5 m).

[8:12]  4 tn Heb “the porch.”

[14:3]  7 tn Heb “the altars of the foreigner.”

[14:3]  8 sn Asherah poles. A leading deity of the Canaanite pantheon was Asherah, wife/sister of El and goddess of fertility. She was commonly worshiped at shrines in or near groves of evergreen trees, or, failing that, at places marked by wooden poles (Hebrew אֲשֵׁרִים [’asherim], as here). They were to be burned or cut down (Deut 7:5; 12:3; 16:21; Judg 6:25, 28, 30; 2 Kgs 18:4).

[33:4]  10 tn Heb “In Jerusalem my name will be permanently.”

[34:5]  13 tn Heb “the priests”; the qualifying adjective “pagan” has been supplied in the translation for clarity.



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