2Ki 23:8-17 | ESV | STEP | And he brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah , and defiled the high places where the priests had made offerings , from Geba 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 .

2 Kings 23:8-17

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 ^aGeba 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 ^bHowever, 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 ^cTopheth, which is ^din the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, ^ethat no one might burn his son or his daughter as an offering to ^fMolech. ^{▼▼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 ⁱon the roof of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars ^jthat 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 ^linto the brook Kidron. 13 And the king defiled the high places that were east of Jerusalem, to the south of ^mthe mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had built for ⁿAshtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, and for ^oChemosh the abomination of Moab, and for ^pMilcom the abomination of the Ammonites. 14 And he broke in pieces the ^qpillars and cut down the Asherim and filled their places with the bones of men.

15 Moreover, the altar at Bethel, the high place erected ^rby Jeroboam the son of Nebat, ^swho made Israel to sin, ^tthat 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. 16 And as Josiah turned, he saw the tombs there on the mount. And he sent and took the bones out of the tombs and burned them on the altar and defiled it, ^vaccording to the word of the Lord that the man of God proclaimed, who had predicted these things. 17 Then he said, “What is that monument that I see?” And the men of the city told him, ^w“It is the tomb of the man of God who came from Judah and predicted ^{▼▼Hebrew called} these things that you have done against the altar at Bethel.”