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out the grove from the house of the L
ORD
, without Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burned
it at the brook Kidron, and stamped
it
small to powder, and cast the powder thereof upon the graves
of the children of the people.
7
And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that
were
by the
house of the L
ORD
, 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 Beer-sheba, 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 L
ORD
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 L
ORD
, by the chamber of Nathan- melech 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 L
ORD
, 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 L
ORD
which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these words.
17
Then he said, What title
is
that
that I see? And the men 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.
18
And he
said, Let him alone; let no man move his bones. So they let his bones alone, with the bones of the
prophet that came out of Samaria.
19
And all the houses also of the high places that
were
in the
cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke
the L
ORD
to anger, Josiah took
away, and did to them according to all the acts that he had done in Bethel.
20
And he slew all the
priests of the high places that
were
there upon the altars, and burned men’s bones upon them, and
returned to Jerusalem.
21
And the king commanded all the people, saying, Keep the passover unto the L
ORD
your God,
as
it is
written in the book of this covenant.
22
Surely there was not holden such a passover from
the days of the judges that judged Israel, nor in all the days of the kings of Israel, nor of the kings
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