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The king stood upon the step... That is, his tribune, or tribunal, a
more eminent place, from whence he might be seen and heard by the
people.
23:4. And the king commanded Helcias, the high priest, and the priests
of the second order, and the doorkeepers, to cast out of the temple of
the Lord all the vessels that had been made for Baal, and for the grove,
and for all the host of heaven: and he burnt them without Jerusalem, in
the valley of Cedron, and he carried the ashes of them to Bethel.
23:5. And he destroyed the soothsayers, whom the kings of Juda had
appointed to sacrifice in the high places in the cities of Juda, and
round about Jerusalem: them also that burnt incense to Baal, and to the
sun, and to the moon, and to the twelve signs, and to all the host of
heaven.
23:6. And he caused the grove to be carried out from the house of the
Lord, without Jerusalem, to the valley of Cedron, and he burnt it there,
and reduced it to dust, and cast the dust upon the graves of the common
people.
23:7. He destroyed also the pavilions of the effeminate, which were in
the house of the Lord, for which the women wove as it were little
dwellings for the grove.
23:8. And he gathered together all the priests out of the cities of
Juda: and he defiled the high places, where the priests offered
sacrifice, from Gabaa to Bersabee: and he broke down the altars of the
gates that were in the entering in of the gate of Josue, governor of the
city, which was on the left hand of the gate of the city.
23:9. However, the priests of the high places came not up to the altar
of the Lord, in Jerusalem: but only eat of the unleavened bread among
their brethren.
23:10. And he defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of
Ennom: that no man should consecrate there his son, or his daughter,
through fire, to Moloch.
23:11. And he took away the horses which the kings of Juda had given to
the sun, at the entering in of the temple of the Lord, near the chamber
of Nathanmelech the eunuch, who was in Pharurim: and he burnt the
chariots of the sun with fire.
23:12. And the altars that were upon the top of the upper chamber of
Achaz, which the kings of Juda had made, and the altars which Manasses
had made in the two courts of the temple of the Lord, the king broke
down: and he ran from thence, and cast the ashes of them into the
torrent Cedron.
23:13. The high places also that were at Jerusalem, on the right side of
the Mount of Offence, which Solomon, king of Israel, had built to
Astaroth, the idol of the Sidonians, and to Chamos, the scandal of Moab,
and to Melchom, the abomination of the children of Ammon, the king
defiled.
23:14. And he broke in pieces the statues, and cut down the groves: and
he filled their places with the bones of dead men.
23:15. Moreover, the altar also that was at Bethel, and the high place,
which Jeroboam, the son of Nabat, who made Israel to sin, had made: both
the altar, and the high place, he broke down and burnt, and reduced to
powder, and burnt the grove.
23:16. And as Josias turned himself, he saw there the sepulchres that
were in the mount: and he sent and took the bones out of the sepulchres,
and burnt them upon the altar, and defiled it according to the word of
the Lord, which the man of God spoke, who had foretold these things.
23:17. And he said: What is that monument which I see? And the men of
that city answered: It is the sepulchre of the man of God, who came from
Juda, and foretold these things which thou hast done upon the altar of
Bethel.
23:18. And he said: Let him alone, let no man move his bones. So his
bones were left untouched with the bones of the prophet, that came out
of Samaria.
23:19. Moreover all the temples of the high places which were in the
cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke the
Lord, Josias took away: and he did to them according to all the acts
that he had done in Bethel.
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