Then in his presence the altars of the Baals were torn down, and he chopped down the incense altars that were above them. He shattered the Asherah poles, the carved images, and the cast images, crushed them to dust, and scattered(A) them over the graves of those who had sacrificed to them.(B) He burned the bones of the priests on their altars.(C) So he cleansed Judah and Jerusalem. He did the same in the cities(D) of Manasseh, Ephraim, and Simeon, and as far as Naphtali and on their surrounding mountain shrines.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 34:6 One Hb tradition reads Naphtali with their swords; alt Hb tradition, Syr, Vg read Naphtali, the ruins all around; Hb obscure

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