Arcana Coelestia # 797
797. From all this it is now evident what is signified by the “waters with which the mountains were covered” namely, persuasions of falsity, which extinguished all the good of charity.
2 Kings 23:8-9
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He brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense, from Geba to Beersheba; and he broke down the high places of the gates that were at the entrance of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which were on a man's left hand at the gate of the city.
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Nevertheless the priests of the high places didn't come up to the altar of Yahweh in Jerusalem, but they ate unleavened bread among their brothers.
