2 Kings 23:7-17

2 Kings 23:7-17

[7] 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.  [8] 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.  [9] 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.  [10] 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.  [11] 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.  [12] 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.  [13] 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.  [14] And he brake in pieces  the images,  and cut down  the groves,  and filled  their places  with the bones  of men.  [15] 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.  [16] 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,  these words.  [17] Then he said,  What title  is that  that I see?  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.