⁷ He broke down the houses of the illicit priests who were in the house of the Lord, where the women did weaving for Asherah.^(A)

¹⁶ You took some of your garments and made for yourself colorful high places and on them prostituted yourself; nothing like this has ever been or ever shall be.^[a](A)

¹² He put away the illicit priests out of the land and removed all the idols that his ancestors had made.^(A)

²⁴ there were also illicit priests in the land. They committed all the abominations of the nations that the Lord had driven out before the people of Israel.^(A)

²⁵ All the skillful women spun with their hands and brought what they had spun in blue and purple and crimson yarns and fine linen;^{(A) 26} all the women whose hearts moved them to use their skill spun the goats’ hair.

²⁶ For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. Their females exchanged natural intercourse^[a] for unnatural,^{(A) 27} and in the same way also the males, giving up natural intercourse^[b] with females, were consumed with their passionate desires for one another. Males committed shameless acts with males and received in their own persons the due penalty for their error.^(B)

¹⁴ Then he brought me to the entrance of the north gate of the house of the Lord; women were sitting there weeping for Tammuz.^(A)

³³ Josiah took away all the abominations from all the territory that belonged to the people of Israel and made all who were in Israel serve the Lord their God. All his days they did not turn away from following the Lord the God of their ancestors.^(A)

⁴⁶ The remnant of the illicit priests who remained from the days of his father Asa, he purged from the land.^(A)