¹¹ And he removed the horses that the kings of Judah had dedicated to the sun, at the entrance to the house of the Lord, by the chamber of Nathan-melech the chamberlain, which was in the precincts.^[a] And he burned the chariots of the sun with fire.

¹⁶ And he brought me into ^(A)the inner court of the house of the Lord. And behold, at the entrance of the temple of the Lord, ^(B)between the ^(C)porch and ^(D)the altar, were about twenty-five men, ^(E)with their backs to the temple of the Lord, and their faces toward the east, worshiping ^(F)the sun toward the east.

⁴ And they chopped down the altars of the Baals in his presence, and he cut down the ^(A)incense altars that stood above them. And he broke in pieces the ^(B)Asherim and the carved and the metal images, and he made dust of them and ^(C)scattered it over the graves of those who had sacrificed to them.

⁵ He also took out of all the cities of Judah ^(A)the high places and the ^(B)incense altars. And the kingdom had rest under him.

⁵ And he deposed the priests whom the kings of Judah had ordained to make offerings in the high places at the cities of Judah and around Jerusalem; those also who burned incense to Baal, to the sun and the moon and the constellations ^(A)and all the host of the heavens.