6. Josiah removed the Asherah pole from the Lord’S Temple. He took the Asherah pole outside the city to the Kidron Valley and burned it there. Then he beat the burned pieces into dust and scattered the dust over the graves of the common people.
7. Then King Josiah broke down the houses of the male prostitutes who were in the Lord’S Temple. Women also used these houses and made little tent covers to honor the false goddess Asherah.
10. Topheth was a place in the Valley of Hinnom’s Son where people killed their children and burned them on an altar to honor the false god Molech. Josiah ruined that place so that no one could use it again.