2 Raja-raja 23:6

23:6 He removed the Asherah pole from the Lord’s temple and took it outside Jerusalem to the Kidron Valley, where he burned it. ¹  He smashed it to dust and then threw the dust in the public graveyard. ² 

2 Raja-raja 23:14

23:14 He smashed the sacred pillars to bits, cut down the Asherah pole, and filled those shrines ³  with human bones.

[23:6]  ¹ tn Heb “and he burned it in the Kidron Valley.”

[23:6]  ² tc Heb “on the grave of the sons of the people.” Some Hebrew, Greek, Syriac, Aramaic, and Latin witnesses read the plural “graves.”

[23:6]  tn The phrase “sons of the people” refers here to the common people (see BDB 766 s.v. עַם), as opposed to the upper classes who would have private tombs.

[23:14]  ³ tn Heb “their places.”