# 2 Kings 23:13

> The king also desecrated the high places east of Jerusalem, to the south of the Mount of Corruption, which King Solomon of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.

— 2 Kings 23:13, Berean Standard Bible

## On the map

- **Jerusalem** (Judea · today Jerusalem) — https://scriptoria.digital/en/atlas/jerusalem
- **Moab 1** — https://scriptoria.digital/en/atlas/moab-1
- **Ammon** — https://scriptoria.digital/en/atlas/ammon
- **Mount of Olives** — https://scriptoria.digital/en/atlas/mount-of-olives

## When

- c. 622-609 BC (dated by the text itself)
- Date source: 2 Kings 22:3 dates the finding of the Book of the Law by the eighteenth year of Josiah.

## Who ruled

- **Neco II**, pharaoh of Egypt, 610-595 BC · Source: Babylonian Chronicles (ABC 5), Battle of Carchemish; Herodotus II
- **Josiah**, king of Judah, 640-609 BC · Source: 2 Kings 22-23; 2 Chronicles 34-35; his death at Megiddo falls in the Egyptian campaign of 609 BC, which the Babylonian Chronicles record

## See also

- 1 Kings 11:5 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/1-kings/11/5
- 1 Kings 11:7 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/1-kings/11/7
- Numbers 21:29 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/numbers/21/29

Cross-references: OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0.

## This document

- Canonical: https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/2-kings/23/13
- Whole chapter: https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/2-kings/23
- License: Scripture: Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain. Source: Scriptoria (scriptoria.digital).