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 broke 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 did not come up to the altar of the LORD in Jerusalem, but they did eat of the unleavened bread among their brethren.
10
And he defiled Tophet, which
is in the valley of the sons 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 dedicated to the sun, at the entrance of the house of the LORD, by the chamber of Nathanmelech, the chamberlain who
was in charge of the Parbar, and burned the chariots of the sun with fire.
12
And the king cast down 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 and made haste and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron.
13
Likewise, the king defiled 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 built unto Ashtoreth, the abomination of the Zidonians, and unto Chemosh, the abomination of the Moabites, and unto Milcom, the abomination of the sons of Ammon.
14
And he broke the images in pieces and cut down the groves and filled their places with the bones of men.
15
Likewise, the altar that
was at Bethel
and the high place which Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, who caused Israel to sin, had made: both that altar and the high place he broke 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, who had proclaimed these words.
17
Then he said, What title
is this that I see? And the men of the city told him,
It is the sepulchre of the man of God, who came from Judah and proclaimed these things that thou hast done against the altar of Bethel.
18
And he said, Let him alone; let no one move his bones. So his bones were saved along with the bones of the prophet that had come out of Samaria.