He burned down the Lord’s temple, the royal palace, and all the houses in Jerusalem, including every large house.

Hezekiah gave him all the silver in the Lord’s temple and in the treasuries of the royal palace.

The gatekeepers relayed the news to the royal palace.

They hauled out the sacred pillar of the temple of Baal and burned it.

He followed in the footsteps of Ahab’s dynasty and did evil in the sight of the Lord, like Ahab’s dynasty, for he was related to Ahab’s family.

Then Ahaz took the silver and gold that were in the Lord’s temple and in the treasuries of the royal palace and sent it as tribute to the king of Assyria.

May the Lord forgive your servant for this one thing: When my master enters the temple of Rimmon to worship, and he leans on my arm and I bow down in the temple of Rimmon, may the Lord forgive your servant for this.”

Ahab’s entire family will die. I will cut off every last male belonging to Ahab in Israel, including even the weak and incapacitated.

I will make Ahab’s dynasty like those of Jeroboam son of Nebat and Baasha son of Ahijah.

Jehu then left there and set out for Samaria. While he was traveling through Beth Eked of the Shepherds,

They demolished the sacred pillar of Baal and the temple of Baal; it is used as a latrine to this very day.

He hid out with his nurse in the Lord’s temple for six years, while Athaliah was ruling over the land.

When Athaliah heard the royal guard shout, she joined the crowd at the Lord’s temple.

They seized her and took her into the precincts of the royal palace through the horses’ entrance. There she was executed.

It was handed over to the foremen who used it to repair the Lord’s temple.

(The silver collected in conjunction with reparation offerings and sin offerings was not brought to the Lord’s temple; it belonged to the priests.)

His servants conspired against him and murdered Joash at Beth-Millo, on the road that goes down to Silla.

When King Hezekiah heard this, he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth, and went to the Lord’s temple.

Those who remain in Judah will take root in the ground and bear fruit.

In the two courtyards of the Lord’s temple he built altars for all the stars in the sky.