4. So they tore down the altars for the Baals, and he cut down the incense altars that were above them and smashed the Asherah poles and carved and cast images. And he crushed them to dustandscattered them before the graves of those who sacrificed to them.
5. Then he burned the bones of the priests on their altars and so cleansed Judah and Jerusalem.
6. In the cities of Manasseh, Ephraim, and Simeon, and as far as Naphtali, in their ruins all around,
7. he broke down the altars, beat Asherah poles and the images into powder, and cut down all the incense altars throughout all the land of Israel. Then he returned to Jerusalem.
8. In the eighteenth year of his reign, when he had purged the land and the house, he sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, Maaseiah the governor of the city, and Joah the son of Joahaz, the recorder, to repair the house of the Lord his God.