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He set the engraved image of Asherah that he had made in the house of which the LORD said to David and to Solomon his son, “In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my name forever;
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Verse 7. Of the grove. Hebrew “a graven thing of Ashera,” the grove or Astarte, ( Bible.) verse 3. This was an engraving in sculpture of a sacred grove. Sa. Calmet. 23:6. Tirinus.—My name. I alone will be adored, and there allow an altar to be erected. Bible.
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