Josiah's Defilement of the High Places

The king defiled the high places that were east of Jerusalem to the south of the Mount of Corruption. He removed the horses that the kings of Judah had dedicated to the sun at the entrance to the house of the Lord by the chamber of Nathan Molak, which was in the precincts. And he burned the chariots of the sun with fire. The altar at Beful, the high place erected by Jeroboam, the son of Nabat, who made Israel to sin that altar with the high place he 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 of