³ For he rebuilt the ^[a]high places which Hezekiah his father had ^(A)broken down; he raised up altars for the Baals, and ^(B)made wooden images; and he worshiped ^(C)all ^[b]the host of heaven and served them.

^21 (A)“You shall not plant for yourself any tree, as a ^[a]wooden image, near the altar which you build for yourself to the Lord your God.

³ who has gone and served other gods and worshiped them, either ^(A)the sun or moon or any of the host of heaven, ^(B)which I have not commanded,

The Reforms of Hezekiah^(A)

31 Now when all this was finished, all Israel who were present went out to the cities of Judah and ^(B)broke the sacred pillars in pieces, cut down the wooden images, and threw down the ^[a]high places and the altars—from all Judah, Benjamin, Ephraim, and Manasseh—until they had utterly destroyed them all. Then all the children of Israel returned to their own cities, every man to his possession.

¹⁴ They arose and took away the ^(A)altars that were in Jerusalem, and they took away all the incense altars and cast them into the Brook ^(B)Kidron.

¹³ And the houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah shall be defiled ^(A)like the place of Tophet, because of all the houses on whose ^(B)roofs they have burned incense to all the host of heaven, and ^(C)poured out drink offerings to other gods.” ’ ”

⁵ Then he removed the idolatrous priests whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense on the high places in the cities of Judah and in the places all around Jerusalem, and those who burned incense to Baal, to the sun, to the moon, to the ^[a]constellations, and to ^(A)all the host of heaven. ⁶ And he brought out the ^(B)wooden^[b] image from the house of the Lord, to the Brook Kidron outside Jerusalem, burned it at the Brook Kidron and ground it to ^(C)ashes, and threw its ashes on ^(D)the graves of the common people.