He removed the male cultic prostitutes from the land and got rid of all the disgusting idols his ancestors had made.

They worshiped the disgusting idols in blatant disregard of the Lord’s command.

He was so wicked he worshiped the disgusting idols, just like the Amorites whom the Lord had driven out from before the Israelites.)

He followed in the footsteps of his father and worshiped and bowed down to the disgusting idols which his father had worshiped.

Josiah also got rid of the ritual pits used to conjure up spirits, the magicians, personal idols, disgusting images, and all the detestable idols that had appeared in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem. In this way he carried out the terms of the law recorded on the scroll that Hilkiah the priest had discovered in the Lord’s temple.