The Importance of Deposing Priests

He deposed is the way that the ESV translates this. The Hebrew verb is the same verb from which we get Shabbat for the Sabbath. So he's basically putting a stop to the work of these priests. He also brought out from the house of the Lord the ashira pole and took it outside Jerusalem, took it to the brook kedron. And not only that, but he beat it to dust. Well, there's one more thing that you can do with it: cast the dust upon the graves of the common people.