⁴ Then the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest and ^(A)the priests of the second order and the ^[a]doorkeepers, ^(B)to bring out of the temple of Yahweh all the vessels that were made for Baal, for ^[b]Asherah, and for all the host of heaven; and ^(C)he burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron, and carried their ashes to Bethel. ⁵ And he did away with the idolatrous priests whom the kings of Judah had appointed and who burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah and in the surrounding area of Jerusalem, as well as those who burned incense to Baal, to the sun and to the moon and to the constellations and to all the ^(D)host of heaven. ⁶ And he brought out the Asherah from the house of Yahweh outside Jerusalem to the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and ^(E)ground it to dust, and ^(F)threw its dust on the graves of the ^[c]common people.