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Brothel in the older English translation tradition renders the Hebrew term for a high place — the elevated worship site whose licentious practices fused idolatrous worship with ritual prostitution, repeatedly attacked by reforming kings such as Asa, Jehoshaphat, Hezekiah, and Josiah.

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