2 Kings 23:3-5

Legacy Standard Bible

^3 (A)Then the king stood by the pillar and cut a covenant before Yahweh, ^(B)to walk after Yahweh, and to keep His commandments and His testimonies and His statutes with all his heart and all his soul, to establish the words of this covenant that were written in this book. And all the people ^[a]entered into the covenant.

⁴ Then the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest and ^(C)the priests of the second order and the ^[b]doorkeepers, ^(D)to bring out of the temple of Yahweh all the vessels that were made for Baal, for ^[c]Asherah, and for all the host of heaven; and ^(E)he burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron, and carried their ashes to Bethel. ⁵ And he did away with the idolatrous priests whom the kings of Judah had appointed and who burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah and in the surrounding area of Jerusalem, as well as those who burned incense to Baal, to the sun and to the moon and to the constellations and to all the ^(F)host of heaven.