2Kings:23:7-20
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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And he brake in pieces the images ,
and cut down the groves ,
and filled their places with the bones of men .
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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 .
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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 LORD which the man of God proclaimed ,
who proclaimed these words .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 LORD to anger ,
Josiah took away ,
and did to them according to all the acts that he had done in Bethel .
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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 .