The people — Of that people, those idolatrous people, as it is explained, 2 Chronicles 34:4.
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2 Kings 23:6
6 And he brought out the grove from the house of the LORD, without Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and stamped it small to powder, and cast the powder thereof upon the graves of the children of the people.