12:023:005 And he put down the idolatrous priests,
whom the kings of
Judah
had ordained to burn incense in the high places in
the
cities
of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem;
them
also
that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the
moon,
and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven.
12:023:006 And he brought out the grove from the house
of the lord,
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.
12:023:007 And he brake down the houses of the sodomites,
that were by
the
house of the lord, where the women wove hangings
for the
grove.
12:023:008 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 Beersheba, 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.
12:023:009 Nevertheless the priests of the high places
came not up to the
altar
of the lord in Jerusalem, but they did eat of
the
unleavened
bread among their brethren.
12:023:010 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.
12:023:011 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 lord,
by
the
chamber of Nathanmelech the chamberlain, which was
in the
suburbs,
and burned the chariots of the sun with fire.
12:023:012 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 lord,
did
the king beat down, and brake them down from thence,
and
cast
the dust of them into the brook Kidron.
12:023:013 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.
12:023:014 And he brake in pieces the images, and
cut down the groves,
and
filled their places with the bones of men.


