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Although the priests of these shrines didn’t go up on the Lord’s altar in Jerusalem, they did eat unleavened bread with their fellow priests.

10 Josiah defiled the Topheth in the Ben-hinnom Valley so no one could burn their child alive in honor of the god Molech. 11 He did away with the horses that Judah’s kings had dedicated to the sun. They were kept at the entrance to the Lord’s temple near a room in the annex[a] that belonged to an official named Nathan-melech. Josiah set fire to the chariots that were dedicated to the sun.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 23:11 Heb uncertain

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