The Second Book of Kings (Commonly Called The Fourth Book of Kings )

And the king sent, and they gathered to him all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem.

And the king went up to the house of Jehovah, and every man of Judah, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with him, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the people, from small to great; and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant that [was] found in the house of Jehovah.

And the king stood by the pillar, and made the covenant before Jehovah, to walk after Jehovah, and to keep His commandments, and His testimonies, and His statutes, with all [his] heart, and with all [his] soul, to lift up the words of this covenant that were written in this Book. And all the people stood to the covenant.

And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the door, to bring out from the temple of Jehovah all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for Asherah, and for all the host of the heavens. And he burned them at the outside of Jerusalem, in the fields of Kidron, and carried their ashes to Bethel.

And he caused to cease the idolatrous priests whom the kings of Judah had appointed to burn [incense] in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places around Jerusalem, and those burning [incense] to Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to constellations, and to all the host of the heavens.

And he brought out the Asherah from the house of Jehovah to the outside of Jerusalem, to the torrent Kidron, and burned it at the torrent Kidron, and ground [it] to powder, and threw the powder of it on the graves of the sons of the people.

And he broke down the houses of the male prostitutes that [were] in the house of Jehovah, where the women were weaving houses for Asherah.

And he made come in all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests burned [incense], from Geba to Beersheba, and 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.

However the priests of the high places did not come up to the altar of Jehovah in Jerusalem, but they ate unleavened bread among their brothers.

And he defiled Topheth in the valley of the sons of Hinnom, so that no man could cause his son and his daughter to pass through the fire of Molech.

And he caused to cease the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the entrance of the house of Jehovah, by the room of Nathan-melech the eunuch, that [was] in the suburbs. And he burned with fire the chariots of the sun.

And the altars that [were] on the top of the upper room of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made. and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of Jehovah. the king broke down, and ran from there and threw the dust of them into the torrent Kidron.

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 built for Ashtoreth the idol of the Sidonians, and for Chemosh the idol of the Moabites, and for Milcom the idol of the sons of Ammon, the king defiled.