2 Kings 23:12–27

12 And the altars that were aon the top of the bupper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which cManasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the Lord, did the king beat down, and ||brake them down from thence, and cast the dust of them into dthe brook Kidron. 13 And the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of ||the mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had builded for eAshtoreth the abomination of the Zidonians, and for fChemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for eMilcom the abomination of the children of Ammon, did the king defile. 14 And he brake in pieces the †images, and cut down the groves, and filled their places with the bones of men.

15 Moreover the altar that was at Beth-el, and the high place gwhich Jeroboam the son of Nebat, hwho 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. 16 And as Josiah turned himself, he spied the sepulchres that were there in the mount, and sent, and took the bones out of the sepulchres, and burned them upon the altar, and polluted it, iaccording to the word of the Lord which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these words. 17 Then he said, What ktitle is that that I see? And the men of the city told him, It is lthe sepulchre of the man of God, which came from Judah, and proclaimed these things that thou hast done against the altar of Beth-el. 18 And he said, Let him alone; let no man move his bones. So they let his bones †alone, with the bones mof the prophet that came out of Samaria. 19 And all the houses also of the high places that were nin the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke the Lord to anger, Josiah took away, and did to them according to all the acts that he had done in Beth-el. 20 And he ||oslew all the priests of the high places that were there upon the altars, and pburned men’s bones upon them, and returned to Jerusalem.

21 And the king commanded all the people, saying, qKeep the passover unto the Lord your God, ras it is written in sthe book of this covenant. 22 tSurely there was not holden such a passover from the days of the judges that judged Israel, nor in all the days of the kings of Israel, nor of the kings of Judah; 23 But in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, wherein this passover was holden to the Lord in Jerusalem. 24 *Moreover the uworkers with familiar spirits, and the wizards, and the ||images, and xthe idols, and all the abominations that were spied in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, did Josiah put away, that he might perform ythe words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of the Lord. 25 zAnd like unto him was there no king before him, that turned to the Lord with all his heart, and with all his soul, and awith all his might, according to all the law of Moses; neither after him arose there any like him. 26 Notwithstanding the Lord turned not from the fierceness of his great wrath, wherewith his anger was kindled against Judah, bbecause of all the †provocations that Manasseh had provoked him withal. 27 And the Lord said, I will remove Judah also out of my sight, as cI have removed Israel, and dwill cast off this city Jerusalem which I have chosen, and ethe house of which I said, My name shall be there.