2 Kings 23:6

And he brought out the idol pole from the house of the LORD, outside Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and stamped it small into powder, and cast the powder thereof upon the graves of the children of the people.

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George Leo Haydock

AD 1849

Grove. The idol of Astarte, or the representation of a grove in sculpture. (Haydock) People, who were not rich enough to have a sepulchre. Jeremias (xix. 11.) threatens the people of Jerusalem with such a burial. (Calmet) The common people here means the idolaters, 2 Paralipomenon xxxiv. 4. (Haydock)

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