2 Kings 23:3-5

New American Standard Bible 1995

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

Reforms under Josiah

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 the Lord 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 He did away with 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 surrounding area of Jerusalem, also 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.