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Tyndale Open Study Notes on 2 Kings 13:6

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Tyndale Open Study Notes
Tyndale House Publishers · Modern study notes
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13:6 Despite God’s rescue, Israel continued to sin, eventually resulting in the fall of the northern kingdom (17:21-23; 1 Kgs 14:15-16). • This Asherah pole (a Canaanite fertility symbol erected by Ahab, 1 Kgs 16:33) had apparently been spared in Jehu’s purge of Baal worship (2 Kgs 10:26-29).
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