^4 (A) He watched as the altars for the worship of the god Baal were torn down, and as the nearby incense altars were smashed. The Asherah poles, the idols, and the stone images were also smashed, and the pieces were scattered over the graves of their worshipers. ^5 (B) Josiah then had the bones of the pagan priests burned on the altars.^[a]

And so Josiah got rid of the worship of foreign gods in Judah and Jerusalem. ⁶ He did the same things in the towns and ruined villages^[b] in the territories of West Manasseh, Ephraim, and Simeon, as far as the border of Naphtali.