4 And the king went on to command Hil·kiʹah+ the high priest and the priests of the second rank and the doorkeepers+ to bring out from the temple of Jehovah all the utensils made for Baʹal+ and for the sacred pole+ and for all the army of the heavens.+ Then he burned them outside Jerusalem on the terraces of Kidʹron,+ and he brought the dust of them to Bethʹel.+

4 Further, they pulled down before him the altars+ of the Baʹals;+ and the incense stands+ that were up above he cut down from off them; and the sacred poles+ and the graven images+ and the molten statues he broke in pieces and reduced to powder,+ and then sprinkled [it] upon the surface of the burial places of those that used to sacrifice to them.+

2 “And it must occur in that day,” is the utterance of Jehovah of armies, “[that] I shall cut off the names of the idols out of the land,+ and they will no more be remembered;* and also the prophets+ and the spirit of uncleanness* I shall cause to pass out of the land.+