2Ki 23:4-14 | ESV | STEP | And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest and the priests of the second order and the keepers of the threshold to bring out of the temple of the Lord all the vessels made for Baal , for Asherah , and for all the host of heaven . He burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron and carried their ashes to Bethel .

l[See ver. 6 above]

m 1 Kgs. 15:22

nSee Ezek. 44:10-14

o Isa. 30:33; Jer. 7:31, 32; 19:6, 11-14

pSee Josh. 15:8

qSee Lev. 18:21

rSee 1 Kgs. 11:7

u[Jer. 19:13; 32:29; Zeph. 1:5]

x ver. 4, 6

zSee 1 Kgs. 11:5

acSee Ex. 23:24

2 Kings 23:4-14

4 And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest and the priests ^aof the second order and the keepers of the threshold to bring out of the temple of the Lord all the vessels made for ^bBaal, for ^cAsherah, and for all the host of heaven. ^dHe burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron and carried their ashes to Bethel. 5 And he deposed the priests whom the kings of Judah had ordained to make offerings in the high places at the cities of Judah and around Jerusalem; those also who burned incense to Baal, to the sun and the moon and the constellations ^eand all the host of the heavens. 6 And he brought out ^fthe Asherah from the house of the Lord, outside Jerusalem, to the brook Kidron, ^gand burned it at the brook Kidron ^hand beat it to dust and cast the dust of it upon the graves ⁱof the common people. 7 And he broke down the houses of ^jthe male cult prostitutes who were in the house of the Lord, ^kwhere the women wove hangings for ^lthe Asherah. 8 And he brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests had made offerings, from ^mGeba to Beersheba. And he broke down the high places of the gates that were at the entrance of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which were on one’s left at the gate of the city. 9 ⁿHowever, the priests of the high places did not come up to the altar of the Lord in Jerusalem, but they ate unleavened bread among their brothers. 10 And he defiled ^oTopheth, which is ^pin the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, ^qthat no one might burn his son or his daughter as an offering to ^rMolech. ^{▼▼Hebrew might cause his son or daughter to pass through the fire for Molech} 11 And he removed the horses that the kings of Judah had dedicated to the sun, at the entrance to the house of the Lord, by the chamber of Nathan-melech the chamberlain, which was in the precincts. ^{▼▼The meaning of the Hebrew word is uncertain} And he burned the chariots of the sun with fire. 12 And the altars ^uon the roof of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars ^vthat Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the Lord, he pulled down and broke in pieces ^{▼▼Hebrew pieces from there} and cast the dust of them ^xinto the brook Kidron. 13 And the king defiled the high places that were east of Jerusalem, to the south of ^ythe mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had built for ^zAshtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, and for ^aaChemosh the abomination of Moab, and for ^abMilcom the abomination of the Ammonites. 14 And he broke in pieces the ^acpillars and cut down the Asherim and filled their places with the bones of men.