He put an idol of Asherah he had made in the temple, about which the <sc>Lordsc> had said to David and to his son Solomon, &#8220;This temple in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, will be my permanent home.<n id="1" />

<p class="bodytext">Josiah also got rid of<n id="1" /> the ritual pits used to conjure up spirits,<n id="2" /> the magicians, personal idols, disgusting images,<n id="3" /> 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<n id="4" /> recorded on the scroll that Hilkiah the priest had discovered in the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s temple.