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their own altars — Bible Term Explained | nocap.bible

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their own altars

their own altars

Unauthorized worship altars — sites of pagan or syncretistic worship Israel was commanded to destroy

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Altars built for worship of false gods or for unauthorized worship of God outside His prescribed system. The prophets and faithful kings worked to tear down these altars as part of religious reform.

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The Boy Who Chose Different2 Chronicles 34:1-7

Burning the bones of false priests on their own altars was Josiah's method of permanently defiling and decommissioning those worship sites — a deliberate act of ritual desecration that made them unusable.

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