2 Kings 23:2-20 And the kyng went vp into the house of the Lorde, with all the men of Iuda and all the enhabitoures of Ierusalem, with the preastes, and prophetes and all the people both small and greate. And he red in the eares of them all the wordes of the boke of the couenaunt, which was founde in the house of the Lorde.

Great⁽ⁱ⁾ ² And the kyng went vp into the house of the Lorde, with all the men of Iuda and all the enhabitoures of Ierusalem, with the preastes, and prophetes and all the people both small and greate. And he red in the eares of them all the wordes of the boke of the couenaunt, which was founde in the house of the Lorde. ³ And the kynge stode by a pyler and made a couenaunt before the Lorde, that they shulde walke after the Lord, and kepe his commaundmentes, hys wytnesses, & hys statutes with all theyr herte, and all theyr soule, and make good the wordes of the sayde appoyntment that were wrytten in the forsayde boke. And all the people consented to the appoyntment. ⁴ And the kynge commaunded Helkia the hye preaste, and the inferioure preastes and the kepers of the ornamentes, to brynge out of the temple of the Lorde, all the vesselles that were made for Baal, for the Idole groues & for all the Hoste of heauen. And he burnt them without Ierusalem in the feldes of Cedron, and caryed the asshes of them into Bethel. ⁵ And he put downe the ministers of Baal whom the kynges of Iuda had founded to burne incense in the hyllaulters and cyties of Iuda, that were rounde aboute Ierusalem, and also them that burnt incense vnto Baal, to the sonne, to the mone, to the planetes, and to all the Hoste of heauen. ⁶ And he brought out the groue from the temple of the Lorde without Ierusalem vnto the broke Cedron, and burnt it there at the broke Cedron, and stampte it to pouldre, and cast the duste therof vpon the graues of the chyldren of the people. ⁷ And he brake downe the celles of the male stues that were by the house of the Lorde, where the wemen woue hangynges for the Idole groue. ⁸ And he brought all the preastes out of the cyties of Iuda, and defyled the hyllaulters, where the preastes had burnt incense: euen from Geba to Beerseba, and destroied the aulters of the Gates, that were in the enterynge in of the gate of Iosua the gouernoure of the citie which were (as a man goeth in) on the lefte hande of the gate of the cytie. ⁹ Neuerthelesse the preastes of the hyllaultares came not vp to the aulter of the Lorde in Ierusalem, saue onlye they dyd eate of the swete breade among theyr brethren. ¹⁰ And he defyled Topheth, which is in the valeye of the chyldren of Hinnom, because no man shulde offer hys sonne or hys daughter in fyre to Molech: ¹¹ he put downe the horses that the kynges of Israel had geuen to the sonne at the entrynge in of the house of the Lorde, by the chambre of Nathanmelech the chamberlaine which was ruler of the suburbes, and burnt the charettes of the sonne with fyre. ¹² And the aulters that were on the toppe of the parloure of Ahaz (which the kynges of Iuda had made) and the aulters which Manasse had made in the two courtes of the house of the Lorde, dyd the kynge breake downe, and ranne thence, and cast the dust of them into the broke Cedron. ¹³ And the hyllaulters that were before Ierusalem on the ryght hande of the mounte Oliuete (which Salomon the kynge of Israel had buylded for Astaroth the Idoll of the Zidons, and for Chamos the Idoll of the Moabites, and for Milchom the abhomynable Idoll of the children of Ammon) those the kinge defyled: ¹⁴ and brake the ymages, and cut downe the Idoll groues, and fylled theyr places with the bones of men. ¹⁵ Moreouer the aulter that was at Bethel, the hyllaulter made by Ieroboam the sonne of Nabat (which made Israel synne) bothe the aulter and also the hyll, he brake downe and burnt the hyll alter and stampte it to powder, and burnt the Idole groue. ¹⁶ And as Iosia turned hym selfe, he spyed the graues that were in the mount, and sent and fett the bones out of the graues, and burnt them vpon the aulter, to polute it, accordynge to the worde of the Lord that the man of God proclaymed which tolde the same wordes. ¹⁷ Then he sayde: what graue stone is younder that I se? And the men of the cytie tolde hym, it is the sepulchre of the man of God, whych came from Iuda, and tolde the selfe same thynges that thou hast done to the aulter of Bethel. ¹⁸ And he sayd let hym be: se that no man moue hys bones. And so hys bones were saued with the bones of a prophete that came out of Samaria. ¹⁹ And all the houses of the hyllaulters in the cyties of Samaria which the kynges of Israel had made, to angre withall: those Iosia put out of the waye, and dyd to them according to all the actes that he had done in Bethel. ²⁰ And he sacrifyced all the preastes of the hylaulters that were ther euen vpon the aulters, and burnt mennes bones vpon them, and returned to Ierusalem.