2 Kings 23:1–4

Josiah Restores True Worship

23Now ^athe king sent them to gather all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem to him. ²The king went up to the house of the Lord with all the men of Judah, and with him all the inhabitants of Jerusalem—the priests and the prophets and all the people, both small and great. And he ^bread in their hearing all the words of the Book of the Covenant ^cwhich had been found in the house of the Lord.

³Then the king ^dstood by a pillar and made a ^ecovenant before the Lord, to follow the Lord and to keep His commandments and His testimonies and His statutes, with all his heart and all his soul, to perform the words of this covenant that were written in this book. And all the people took a stand for the covenant. ⁴And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, the ^fpriests of the second order, and the doorkeepers, to bring ^gout of the temple of the Lord all the articles that were made for Baal, for ¹Asherah, and for all ²the host of heaven; and he burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and carried their ashes to Bethel.