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And he brought out the Asherah from the house of Jehovah, without Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and beat it to dust, and cast the dust thereof upon the graves of the [a]common people. And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that were in the house of Jehovah, where the women wove [b]hangings for the Asherah. And he brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense, from Geba to Beer-sheba; and he brake down the high places of the gates that were at the entrance of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which were on a man’s left hand at the gate of the city.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 23:6 Hebrew children of the people.
  2. 2 Kings 23:7 Or, tents. Hebrew houses.