He did what was evil in the Lord’s sight, imitating the detestable practices of the nations that the Lord had dispossessed before the Israelites.(A) He rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had torn down(B) and reestablished the altars for the Baals. He made Asherah poles, and he bowed in worship to all the stars in the sky and served them. He built altars(C) in the Lord’s temple, where the Lord had said, “Jerusalem is where my name will remain forever.”(D)

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