2 Kings 23:12

Josiah's Covenantal Reforms

¹¹ He did away with the horses that the kings of Judah had dedicated to the sun. They had been at the entrance of the Lord’s temple in the precincts by the chamber of Nathan-melech the court official, and he burned up the chariots of the sun. ¹² The king tore down the altars that were on the roof—Ahaz’s upper chamber that the kings of Judah had made—and the altars that Manasseh had made in the two courtyards of the Lord’s temple. Then he smashed them there and threw their dust into the Kidron Valley. ¹³ The king also defiled the high places that were across from Jerusalem, to the south of the Mount of Destruction, which King Solomon of Israel had built for Ashtoreth, the detestable idol of the Sidonians; for Chemosh, the detestable idol of Moab; and for Milcom, the abomination of the Ammonites.

Broke Down the Altars

Courts of the House of the Lord

House of the Lord

King of Judah

Upper Room

Tore Down The Altars

Ahaz

Jehovah

Judah

Kidron

Manasseh

2 Kings 21:5

He built altars to the whole heavenly host in both courtyards of the Lord’s temple.

Jeremiah 19:13

The houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah will become impure like that place Topheth—all the houses on whose rooftops they have burned incense to the whole heavenly host and poured out drink offerings to other gods.”

Zephaniah 1:5

those who bow in worship on the rooftops
to the heavenly host;
those who bow and pledge loyalty to the Lord
but also pledge loyalty to Milcom;

2 Chronicles 33:5

He built altars to the whole heavenly host in both courtyards of the Lord’s temple.

Deuteronomy 22:8

If you build a new house, make a railing around your roof, so that you don’t bring bloodguilt on your house if someone falls from it.

2 Kings 21:21-22

He walked in all the ways his father had walked; he served the idols his father had served, and he worshiped them.

2 Kings 23:4

Then the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest and the priests of the second rank and the doorkeepers to bring out of the Lord’s temple all the articles made for Baal, Asherah, and the whole heavenly host. He burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron and carried their ashes to Bethel.

2 Kings 23:6

He brought out the Asherah pole from the Lord’s temple to the Kidron Valley outside Jerusalem. He burned it at the Kidron Valley, beat it to dust, and threw its dust on the graves of the common people.

2 Chronicles 33:15

He removed the foreign gods and the idol from the Lord’s temple, along with all the altars that he had built on the mountain of the Lord’s temple and in Jerusalem, and he threw them outside the city.