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He killed all the priests of the high places that were there, on the altars, and burned men’s bones on them; and he returned to Jerusalem.
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Verse 20. Slew. Most of the Israelites who had been left, ( Bible.) embraced the true religion, after the captivity of their brethren, ( Calmet.) and adhered to the kings of Juda, (verse 15. Bible.) who had taken possession of the whole country ( D.) after the fall of the Assyrian empire; ( Tirinus.) unless the emperors of Chaldea had given it to them as to their vassels. See verse 29. Calmet.
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