2 Kings 23:4–8

⁴And the king commanded Hilkiah ^fthe high priest, and the priests ^gof the second order; and the keepers of the door, to bring forth out of the temple of the Lord all the vessels that were made for ^hBaal, and for the grove, and for all the host of heaven: and he burnt them without Jerusalem in the fields of ⁱKidron, and carried the ashes of them unto Beth-el. ⁵And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that burnt incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to ^jall the host of heaven. ⁶And he brought out the ^kgrove from the house of the Lord, without Jerusalem, unto the ⁱbrook Kidron, and burnt it at the brook Kidron, and ^lstampt it small to powder, and cast the powder thereof ^mupon the graves of the children of the people. ⁷And he brake down the houses of ⁿthe sodomites, that were by the house of the Lord, ^owhere the women wove hangings for the grove. ⁸And he brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests had burnt incense, from ^pGeba to ^qBeer-sheba, and brake down the high places of the gates that were in the entering in of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which were on a man’s left hand at the gate of the city.