2 Kings 23:4–15

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. ⁷Then he tore down the ritual ⁵booths ^lof the ⁶perverted persons that were in the house of the Lord, ^mwhere the ⁿwomen wove hangings for the wooden image. ⁸And he brought all the priests from the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense, from ^oGeba to Beersheba; also he broke down the high places at the gates which were at the entrance of the Gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which were to the left of the city gate. ^9pNevertheless the priests of the high places did not come up to the altar of the Lord in Jerusalem, ^qbut they ate unleavened bread among their brethren.

¹⁰And he defiled ^rTopheth, which is in ^sthe Valley of the ⁷Son of Hinnom, ^tthat no man might make his son or his daughter ^upass through the fire to Molech. ¹¹Then he removed the horses that the kings of Judah had ⁸dedicated to the sun, at the entrance to the house of the Lord, by the chamber of Nathan-Melech, the officer who was in the court; and he burned the chariots of the sun with fire. ¹²The altars that were ^von the roof, the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which ^wManasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the Lord, the king broke down and pulverized there, and threw their dust into the Brook Kidron. ¹³Then the king defiled the ⁹high places that were east of Jerusalem, which were on the ¹south of ²the Mount of Corruption, which ^xSolomon king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the people of Ammon. ¹⁴And he ^ybroke in pieces the sacred pillars and cut down the wooden images, and filled their places with the bones of men.

¹⁵Moreover the altar that was at Bethel, and the ³high place ^zwhich Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel sin, had made, both that altar and the high place he broke down; and he burned the high place and crushed it to powder, and burned the wooden image.