American Standard Version
"And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that were in the house of Jehovah, where the women wove hangings for the Asherah. "
— 2 Kings 23:7, American Standard Version
“And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that were by the house of the Lord, where the women wove hangings for the grove.”
“He broke down the houses of the sodomites, that were in the house of Yahweh, where the women wove hangings for the Asherah.”
“He tore down the quarters of the male cultic prostitutes in the LORD’s temple, where women were weaving shrines for Asherah.”
“He destroyed also the pavilions of the effeminate, which were in the house of the Lord, for which the women wove as it were little dwellings for the grove.”
“And he had the houses pulled down of those who were used for sex purposes in the house of the Lord, where women were making robes for the Asherah.”
“And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that were by the house of the Lord, where the women wove hangings for the grove.”
And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the threshold, to bring forth out of the temple of Jehovah all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the Asherah, and for all the host of heaven, and he burned them without Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron, and carried the ashes of them unto Beth-el.
And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven.
And he brought out the Asherah from the house of Jehovah, without Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and beat it to dust, and cast the dust thereof upon the graves of the common people.
And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that were in the house of Jehovah, where the women wove hangings for the Asherah.
And he brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense, from Geba to Beer-sheba; and he brake down the high places of the gates that were at the entrance of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which were on a man’s left hand at the gate of the city.
Nevertheless the priests of the high places came not up to the altar of Jehovah in Jerusalem, but they did eat unleavened bread among their brethren.
And he defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the children of Hinnom, that no man might make his son or his daughter to pass through the fire to Molech.