2 Kings 23:10–20

10 And he defiled rTopheth, which is in sthe Valley of the 7Son of Hinnom, tthat no man might make his son or his daughter upass through the fire to Molech. 11 Then he removed the horses that the kings of Judah had 8dedicated to the sun, at the entrance to the house of the Lord, by the chamber of Nathan-Melech, the officer who was in the court; and he burned the chariots of the sun with fire. 12 The altars that were von the roof, the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which wManasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the Lord, the king broke down and pulverized there, and threw their dust into the Brook Kidron. 13 Then the king defiled the 9high places that were east of Jerusalem, which were on the 1south of 2the Mount of Corruption, which xSolomon king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the people of Ammon. 14 And he ybroke in pieces the sacred pillars and cut down the wooden images, and filled their places with the bones of men.

15 Moreover the altar that was at Bethel, and the 3high place zwhich Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel sin, had made, both that altar and the high place he broke down; and he burned the high place and crushed it to powder, and burned the wooden image. 16 As Josiah turned, he saw the tombs that were there on the mountain. And he sent and took the bones out of the tombs and burned them on the altar, and defiled it according to the aword of the Lord which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these words. 17 Then he said, “What gravestone is this that I see?”

So the men of the city told him, “It is bthe tomb of the man of God who came from Judah and proclaimed these things which you have done against the altar of Bethel.”

18 And he said, “Let him alone; let no one move his bones.” So they let his bones alone, with the bones of cthe prophet who came from Samaria.

19 Now Josiah also took away all the 4shrines of the 5high places that were din the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke 6the Lord to anger; and he did to them according to all the deeds he had done in Bethel. 20 eHe fexecuted all the priests of the 7high places who were there, on the altars, and gburned men’s bones on them; and he returned to Jerusalem.