Then the King Sent, and All the Elders of Judah and Jerusalem Were Gathered to Him

The king deposed the idolatrous priests whom the kings of judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places at the cities of judah and round about jerusalem. And he defiled topeth, which is in the valley of the sons of henom, that no one might burn his son or his daughter as an offering to molekh. The altar at bethel, the high place erected by jeroboam, the son of nabat, who made israel to sin, was pulled down and he broke in pieces its stones, crushing them to dust. As josiah turned he saw the tombs there on the mount and he sent and took the bones out