a[See ver. 3 above]
b[See ver. 4 above]

2 Kings 21:7

7And the carved image of aAsherah that he had made he set in the house of which the Lord said to David and to Solomon his son, “In this house, band in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my name forever.

2 Chronicles 24:18

18And they abandoned the house of the Lord, the God of their fathers, and served cthe Asherim and the idols. And dwrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem for this guilt of theirs.
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