^{4 Ref} He had the altars of the Baals broken down, while he himself was present; and the sun-images which were placed on high over them he had cut down; and the pillars of wood and the metal images he had broken up and crushed to dust, dropping the dust over the resting-places of the dead who had made offerings to them.

^{5 Ref} And he had the bones of the priests burned on their altars, and so he made Judah and Jerusalem clean.