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According to the account in 2 Kings 23, the purge of foreign cults undertaken by Josiah extended beyond the kingdom of Judah into Samaria: the bmâ of Bethel and its altar were summarily eradicated (v. 15), and similar action was taken against the bmôt-shrines throughout Northern Israel (vv. 19-20).
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enclitic mein, enclitic mem, scribal intervention, patriarchal covenant, distributive singular, query formula, biblical scrolls, des justes, altar laws, biblical historiography, female sorcerers, boundary list, philological evidence, prophetic story, royal inscriptions, plain meaning, showing favor, consonantal text, town list
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New York, Garden of Eden, Near East, West Semitic, Hebrew Bible, Moshe Weinfeld, Biblical Hebrew, Old Testament, Dead Sea Scrolls, Tel Aviv, Winona Lake, Judean Desert, Preliminary Analysis, Hebrew University, Mount Sinai, Neukirchener Verlag, Garden City, Grand Rapids, Jewish Publication Society, Tel Gerisa, God of Israel, Sheffield Academic Press, Holiness Legislation, Hebrew Vorlage, Johns Hopkins University Press
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