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=== Nationwide Reform ===
=== Nationwide Reform ===
When these celebrations were ended, the people left the city on a campaign to remove every altar, every [[Asherah]] pole, and every [[high place]].<ref name=Orr/><ref name=WebBible><ref name=Aust/>Authors unknown. "[http://www.christiananswers.net/dictionary/hezekiah.html Entry for Hezekiah]." WebBible Encyclopedia. Retrieved May 30, 2007.</ref><ref name=BibleProfiles/> The returning Ephraimites and Mannassites even destroyed the [[high place]]s in the lands of Ephraim and Manasseh--and again, King [[Hoshea]] did not interfere with this. (In the past, some people had presumed to worship God in high places, but that was contrary to God's explicit instruction that all worship of Him take place ''in the Temple.'')
When these celebrations were ended, the people left the city on a campaign to remove every altar, every [[Asherah]] pole, and every [[high place]].<ref name=Orr/><ref name=Aust/>Authors unknown. "[http://www.christiananswers.net/dictionary/hezekiah.html Entry for Hezekiah]." <ref name=WebBible>WebBible Encyclopedia. Retrieved May 30, 2007.</ref><ref name=BibleProfiles/> The returning Ephraimites and Mannassites even destroyed the [[high place]]s in the lands of Ephraim and Manasseh--and again, King [[Hoshea]] did not interfere with this. (In the past, some people had presumed to worship God in high places, but that was contrary to God's explicit instruction that all worship of Him take place ''in the Temple.'')
Hezekiah then re-established the incense-burning and other Levitical rotations, or "courses," and also reinstituted the [[tithe]]. In response, his people sent in offerings so generous that in four months' time they literally had heaps of farm produce and livestock too numerous to store. Hezekiah ordered the priests to build storehouses to keep everything. The tithes continued.
Hezekiah then re-established the incense-burning and other Levitical rotations, or "courses," and also reinstituted the [[tithe]]. In response, his people sent in offerings so generous that in four months' time they literally had heaps of farm produce and livestock too numerous to store. Hezekiah ordered the priests to build storehouses to keep everything. The tithes continued.