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Workers break condemned rooftop and court altars, passing rubble toward the Kidron; temple architecture itself remains intact.
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2 Kings 23:12

Altars broken

Josiah's Covenant and Judah's Last Kings · 2 Kings 23

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12As for the altars on the roof of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars that Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of Yahweh, the king tore them down, smashed them there, and threw their dust into the Kidron Valley.

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