2 Kings 23:4–24

And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the ↦priests of the second order, and ↦the keepers of the door, ↦to bring forth out of the temple of the LORD all the vessels that were made for ↦Baal, and for the grove, and for all the host of heaven: and he burned them without Jerusalem in the fields of ↦Kidron, and carried the ashes of them unto Bethel.⇉⇇

And he put down ↦the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to ↦all the host of heaven.⇇

And he brought out ↦the grove from the house of the LORD, without Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, ↦and burned it at the brook Kidron, and stamped it small to powder, and cast the powder thereof upon ↦the graves of the children of the people.⇇

And he brake down the houses of ↦the sodomites, that were by the house of the LORD, ↦where the women wove hangings for the grove.⇇

And he brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense, from ↦Geba to Beersheba, 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.⇉⇇

Nevertheless ↦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.⇇

And he defiled ↦Topheth, which is in the valley of the children of Hinnom, that no man ↦might make his son or his daughter to pass through the fire to Molech.⇉⇇

And he took 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 chamber of Nathanmelech the chamberlain, which was in the suburbs, and burned the chariots of the sun with fire.⇇

And the altars that were ↦on the top of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars ↦which Manasseh 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 the brook Kidron.⇇

And 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 ↦Ashtoreth the abomination of the Zidonians, and for ↦Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for ↦Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon, did the king defile.⇇

And ↦he brake in pieces the images, and cut down the groves, and filled their places with ↦the bones of men.⇇

Moreover ↦the altar that was at Bethel, and the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who 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.⇇

And 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, according to the word of the LORD which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these words.⇇

Then he said, What title is that that I see? And the men of the city told him, ↦It is the sepulchre of the man of God, which came from Judah, and proclaimed these things that thou hast done against the altar of Bethel.⇇

And he said, Let him alone; let no man move his bones. So they let his bones alone, with ↦the bones of the prophet that came out of Samaria.⇇

And all ↦the houses also of the high places that were in ↦the cities of Samaria, which ↦the kings of Israel had made ↦to provoke the LORD to anger, Josiah took away, and did to them according to all the acts that he had done in Bethel.⇇

And ↦he slew all the priests of the high places that were there upon the altars, and ↦burned men's bones upon them, and returned to Jerusalem.⇇

And the king commanded all the people, saying, ↦Keep the passover unto the LORD your God, ↦as it is written in the book of this covenant.⇇

↦Surely there was not holden such a passover from the days of the judges that judged Israel, nor in all the days ↦of the kings of Israel, nor of the kings of Judah;⇇

But in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, wherein this passover was holden to the LORD in Jerusalem.⇇

Moreover ↦the workers with familiar spirits, and the wizards, and the ↦images, and the idols, and all the abominations that were spied in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, did Josiah put away, ↦that he might perform the words of the law which were written in ↦the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of the LORD.⇇