Moreover, the altar that was at Bethel, within the former boundaries of Israel, now near the southern border of Samaria, and the high place which Jeroboam, the son of Nehat, who made Israel to sin, had made, both that altar and the high place he brake down, destroying the entire place of worship, and burned the high place, evidently a house built on this elevation, and stamped it small to powder, and burned the grove, the Asherah idol, which had taken the place of the calf or had been erected in addition to that.

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