2 Kings 23:4–15

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 burned 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 burned 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 burned it at the brook Kidron, and ^lstamped 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 burned 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. ^9rNevertheless the priests of the high places came not up to the altar of the Lord in Jerusalem, but they did eat of the unleavened bread among their brethren. ¹⁰And he defiled ^sTopheth, which is in ^tthe valley of the children of Hinnom, that no man ^umight make his son or his daughter to pass through the fire to ^wMolech. ¹¹And he ^xtook away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the entering in of the house of the Lord, by the ^ychamber of Nathan-melech the ^||chamberlain, which was in the ^zsuburbs, and burned the chariots of the sun with fire. ¹²And 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. ¹³And 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. ¹⁴And he brake in pieces the ^†images, and cut down the groves, and filled their places with the bones of men.

¹⁵Moreover 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.