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20: 20 Jehu said, "Call an assembly in honor of Baal." So they proclaimed
it.
21
Then he sent word throughout Israel, and all the ministers of Baal came;
not one stayed away. They crowded into the temple of Baal until it was
full from one end to the other.
22
And Jehu said to the keeper of the wardrobe, "Bring robes for all the ministers
of Baal." So he brought out robes for them.
23
Then Jehu and Jehonadab son of Recab went into the temple of Baal. Jehu
said to the ministers of Baal, "Look around and see that no servants of
the LORD are here with you--only ministers of Baal."
24
So they went in to make sacrifices and burnt offerings. Now Jehu had posted
eighty men outside with this warning: "If one of you lets any of the men
I am placing in your hands escape, it will be your life for his life."
25
As soon as Jehu had finished making the burnt offering, he ordered the
guards and officers: "Go in and kill them; let no one escape." So they
cut them down with the sword. The guards and officers threw the bodies
out and then entered the inner shrine of the temple of Baal.
26
They brought the sacred stone out of the temple of Baal and burned it.
27
They demolished the sacred stone of Baal and tore down the temple of Baal,
and people have used it for a latrine to this day.
28
So Jehu destroyed Baal worship in Israel.
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Ch 23: 4 The king ordered Hilkiah the high priest, the priests next
in rank and the doorkeepers to remove from the temple of the LORD all the
articles made for Baal and Asherah and all the starry hosts. He burned
them outside Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron Valley and took the
ashes to Bethel.
5
He did away with the pagan priests appointed by the kings of Judah to burn
incense on the high places of the towns of Judah and on those around Jerusalem--those
who burned incense to Baal, to the sun and moon, to the constellations
and to all the starry hosts.
6
He took the Asherah pole from the temple of the LORD to the Kidron Valley
outside Jerusalem and burned it there. He ground it to powder and scattered
the dust over the graves of the common people.
7
He also tore down the quarters of the male shrine prostitutes, which were
in the temple of the LORD and where women did weaving for Asherah.
8
Josiah brought all the priests from the towns of Judah and desecrated the
high places, from Geba to Beersheba, where the priests had burned incense.
He broke down the shrines at the gates--at the entrance to the Gate of
Joshua, the city governor, which is on the left of the city gate.
9
Although the priests of the high places did not serve at the altar of the
LORD in Jerusalem, they ate unleavened bread with their fellow priests.
10
He desecrated Topheth, which was in the Valley of Ben Hinnom, so no one
could use it to sacrifice his son or daughter in the fire to Molech.
11
He removed from the entrance to the temple of the LORD the horses that
the kings of Judah had dedicated to the sun. They were in the court near
the room of an official named Nathan-Melech. Josiah then burned the chariots
dedicated to the sun.
12
He pulled down the altars the kings of Judah had erected on the roof near
the upper room of Ahaz, and the altars Manasseh had built in the two courts
of the temple of the LORD. He removed them from there, smashed them to
pieces and threw the rubble into the Kidron Valley.
Note: Had to write small.
I took the train to Berkeley and walked up University to the campus and praying along the way. At the tower, I made a large cross on the marker in front of the tower and placed the bottle into the cup with the scriptures and left it pouring out on the marker.
I then went to the steps knelt down and said outloud: "I anoint you in the name of the Father-Jehovah-and of the Son Jesus Christ of Nazareth-and of the Holy Spirit". I left the campus laughing all the way again.
NOTE:
The next morning during prayer; The Lord said: One for the Father--One
for the Son and one for the Holy Spirit. This was reference to the
three anointings. I had no idea why; but just obeyed the Lord.