2 Kings 23:2–6

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. ⁵Then he removed the idolatrous priests whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense on the high places in the cities of Judah and in the places all around Jerusalem, and those who burned incense to Baal, to the sun, to the moon, to the ³constellations, and to ^hall the host of heaven. ⁶And he brought out the ⁱwooden ⁴image from the house of the Lord, to the Brook Kidron outside Jerusalem, burned it at the Brook Kidron and ground it to ^jashes, and threw its ashes on ^kthe graves of the common people.