And the walls round Jerusalem were broken down by the Chaldaean army which was with the captain.

The altar of Baal was pulled down and the house of Baal was broken up and made an unclean place, as it is to this day.

Then all the people of the land went to the house of Baal and had it pulled down: its altars and images were all broken to bits, and Mattan, the priest of Baal, they put to death before the altars. And the priest put overseers over the Lord's house.

He had the high places taken away, and the stone pillars broken to bits, and the Asherah cut down; and the brass snake which Moses had made was crushed to powder at his order, because in those days the children of Israel had offerings burned before it, and he gave it the name Nehushtan.

The stone pillars were broken to bits and the wood pillars cut down, and the places where they had been were made full of the bones of the dead