2 Kings 23:8–17

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. ¹⁶And 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. ¹⁷Then 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.