1Ki 13:2-5, 2Ki 23:15, 2Ch 31:1, 34:6-7, Hos 10:5-8, 14-15, Amo 9:1 | ESV | STEP | And the man cried against the altar by the word of the Lord and said , O altar , altar , thus says the Lord : Behold , a son shall be born to the house of David , Josiah by name , and he shall sacrifice on you the priests of the high places who make offerings on you, and human bones shall be burned on you.

2 ^aAnd the man cried against the altar by the word of the Lord and said, “O altar, altar, thus says the Lord: ‘Behold, a son shall be born to the house of David, ^bJosiah by name, and he shall sacrifice on you the priests of the high places who make offerings on you, and human bones shall be burned on you.’” 3 And he gave ^ca sign the same day, saying, “This is the sign that the Lord has spoken: ‘Behold, the altar shall be torn down, and the ashes that are on it shall be poured out.’” 4 And when the king heard the saying of the man of God, which he cried against the altar at Bethel, Jeroboam stretched out his hand from the altar, saying, “Seize him.” And his hand, which he stretched out against him, dried up, so that he could not draw it back to himself. 5 The altar also was torn down, and the ashes poured out from the altar, according to the sign that the man of God had given by the word of the Lord.

2 Kings 23:15

15 Moreover, the altar at Bethel, the high place erected ^dby Jeroboam the son of Nebat, ^ewho made Israel to sin, ^fthat altar with the high place he pulled down and burned, ^{▼▼Septuagint broke in pieces its stones} reducing it to dust. He also burned the Asherah.

2 Chronicles 31:1

Hezekiah Organizes the Priests

1 Now when all this was finished, all Israel who were present went out to the cities of Judah and ^hbroke in pieces the ⁱpillars and cut down ^jthe Asherim and broke down the high places and the altars throughout all Judah and Benjamin, and in Ephraim and Manasseh, until they had destroyed them all. Then all the people of Israel returned to their cities, every man to his possession.

2 Chronicles 34:6-7

6 And in the ^kcities of Manasseh, Ephraim, and Simeon, and as far as Naphtali, in their ruins ^{▼▼The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain} all around, 7 he broke down the altars and beat the ^mAsherim and the images ⁿinto powder and cut down all the incense altars throughout all the land of Israel. Then he returned to Jerusalem.

Hosea 10:5-8

5 The inhabitants of Samaria tremble
for ^othe calf ^{▼▼Or calves} of ^qBeth-aven.
Its people mourn for it, and so do its idolatrous priests—
those who rejoiced over it and ^rover its glory—
for it has departed ^{▼▼Or has gone into exile} from them.
6 ^tThe thing itself shall be carried to Assyria
as tribute to ^uthe great king. ^{▼▼Or to King Jareb}
Ephraim shall be put to shame,
and Israel shall be ashamed ^wof his idol. ^{▼▼Or counsel}
7 ^ySamaria’s king shall perish
like a twig on the face of the waters.
8 The high places of ^zAven, ^aathe sin of Israel,
shall be destroyed.
^abThorn and thistle shall grow up
on their altars,
and ^acthey shall say to the mountains, “Cover us,”
and to the hills, “Fall on us.”

Hosea 10:14-15

14 therefore ^adthe tumult of war shall arise among your people,
and all your fortresses shall be destroyed,
as ^aeShalman destroyed Beth-arbel on the day of battle;
^afmothers were dashed in pieces with their children.
15 Thus it shall be done to you, O ^agBethel,
because of your great evil.
At dawn ^ahthe king of Israel
shall be utterly cut off.

Amos 9:1

The Destruction of Israel

1 I saw the Lord standing beside ^{▼▼Or on} the altar, and he said:

^aj“Strike the capitals until ^akthe thresholds ^alshake,
^amand shatter them on the heads of all the people; ^{▼▼Hebrew all of them}
and those who are left of them I will kill with the sword;
^aonot one of them shall flee away;
not one of them shall escape.