2 Kings 23:4–8

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.