of the high places came not up to the altar
of the Lord, in Jerusalem: but only eat of the unleavened bread among
their brethren.

23:10. And he defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of
Ennom: that no man should consecrate there his son, or his daughter,
through fire, to Moloch.

23:11. And he took away the horses which the kings of Juda had given to
the sun, at the entering in of the temple of the Lord, near the chamber
of Nathanmelech the eunuch, who was in Pharurim: and he burnt the
chariots of the sun with fire.

23:12. And the altars that were upon the top of the upper chamber of
Achaz, which the kings of Juda had made, and the altars which Manasses
had made in the two courts of the temple of the Lord, the king broke
down: and he ran from thence, and cast the ashes of them into the
torrent Cedron.

23:13. The high places also that were at Jerusalem, on the right side of
the Mount of Offence, which Solomon, king of Israel, had built to
Astaroth, the idol of the Sidonians, and to Chamos, the scandal of Moab,
and to Melchom, the abomination of the children of Ammon, the king
defiled.

23:14. And he broke in pieces the statues, and cut down the groves: and
he filled their places with the bones of dead men.

23:15. Moreover, the altar also that was at Bethel, and the high place,
which Jeroboam, the son of Nabat, who made Israel to sin, had made: both
the altar, and the high place, he broke down and burnt, and reduced to
powder, and burnt the grove.

23:16. And as Josias turned himself, he saw there the sepulchres that
were in the mount: and he sent and took the bones out of the sepulchres,
and burnt them upon the altar, and defiled it according to the word of
the Lord, which the man of God spoke, who had foretold these things.

23:17. And he said: What is that monument which I see? And the men of
that city answered: It is the sepulchre of the man of God, who came from
Juda, and foretold these things which thou hast done upon the altar of
Bethel.

23:18. And he said: Let him alone, let no man move his bones. So his
bones were left untouched with the bones of the prophet, that came out
of Samaria.

23:19. Moreover all the temples of the high places which were in the
cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke the
Lord, Josias took away: and he did to them according to all the acts
that he had done in Bethel.

23:20. And he slew all the priests of the high places, that were