2Ki 23:13 | NETfull | STEP | The king ruined the high places east of Jerusalem, south of the Mount of Destruction, that King Solomon of Israel had built for the detestable Sidonian goddess Astarte, the detestable Moabite god Chemosh, and the horrible Ammonite god Milcom.

2 Kings 23:13

13 The king ruined the high places east of Jerusalem, south of the Mount of Destruction, ^{▼▼ This is a derogatory name for the Mount of Olives, involving a wordplay between מָשְׁחָה (mash^ekhah), “anointing,” and מַשְׁחִית (mash^ekhit), “destruction.” See HALOT 644 s.v. מַשְׁחִית and M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 289.} that King Solomon of Israel had built for the detestable Sidonian goddess Astarte, the detestable Moabite god Chemosh, and the horrible Ammonite god Milcom.