and to the planets, and to all the army of the sky.
023:006 He brought out the Asherah from the house of Yahweh,
outside of Jerusalem, to the brook Kidron, and burned it
at the brook Kidron, and beat it to dust, and cast the dust
of it on the graves of the common people.
023:007 He broke down the houses of the sodomites, that were in the house
of Yahweh, where the women wove hangings for the Asherah.
023:008 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 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 a man's left hand
at the gate of the city.
023:009 Nevertheless the priests of the high places didn't come up
to the altar of Yahweh in Jerusalem, but they ate unleavened
bread among their brothers.
023:010 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.
023:011 He took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given
to the sun, at the entrance of the house of Yahweh, by the
chamber of Nathan Melech the officer, who was in the court;
and he burned the chariots of the sun with fire.
023:012 The altars that were on the roof 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 Yahweh,
did the king break down, and beat [them] down from there,
and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron.
023:013 The high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on
the right hand of the mountain of corruption, which Solomon
the king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination
of the Sidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of Moab,
and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon,
did the king defile.
023:014 He broke in pieces the pillars, and cut down the Asherim,
and filled their places with the bones of men.
023:015 Moreover the altar that was at Bethel, and the high place
which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin,
had made, even that altar and the high place he broke down;
and he burned the high place and beat it to dust,
and burned the Asherah.
023:016 As Josiah turned himself, he spied the tombs that were there
in the mountain; and he sent, and took the bones out of
the tombs, and burned them on the altar, and defiled it,
according to the word of Yahweh which the man of God proclaimed,
who proclaimed these things.
023:017 Then he said, What monument is that which I see?
The men of the city told him, It is the tomb of the man of God,
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