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Amos 4:4

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4 Gå til Betel og synd, til Gilgal og synd til gagns, og bær hver morgen frem eders slaktoffer, hver tredje dag eders tiender,

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Arcana Coelestia #1454

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1454. 'And he built an altar to Jehovah' means external worship of His Father arising out of that state. This is clear from the meaning of 'an altar' as the chief representative in worship, 921.

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.

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2 Kings 23:15

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15 Moreover the altar that was at Bethel, and the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had made, both that altar and the high place he brake down, and burned the high place, and stamped it small to powder, and burned the grove.