6. He brought out the Asherah from the Lord’s house, outside of Jerusalem, to the brook Kidron, and burnt it at the brook Kidron, and beat it to dust, and cast its dust on the graves of the common people.
7. He broke down the houses of the male shrine prostitutes that were in the Lord’s house, where the women wove hangings for the Asherah.
8. He brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests had burnt incense, from Geba to Beersheba; and he broke down the high places of the gates that were at the entrance of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which were on a man’s left hand at the gate of the city.
9. Nevertheless the priests of the high places didn’t come up to the Lord’s altar in Jerusalem, but they ate unleavened bread amongst their brothers.