2 Kings 23:8

He brought all the priests Belonging to the high places following, whether such as worshipped idols, or such as worshipped God in those forbidden places. Out of the cities of Judah That they might not continue to corrupt the people. And defiled the high places Casting dead carcasses there, and other such like unclean things, and thus making them receptacles of impurity, and burning dead men's bones upon the altars that were there. From Geba The northern border of the kingdom of Judah. To Beer-sheba The southern border; that is, throughout the whole country. And brake down the high places of the gates Dedicated to their tutelary gods, whom their idolatrous kings, after the manner of the heathen, owned for the protectors of their city and habitations. These places seem to have been erected at the gates, in order that all who entered or went out of the city might pay some kind of adoration to them. In the gate of Joshua, the governor of the city This circumstance is mentioned to show Josiah's great zeal and impartiality in rooting out all monuments of idolatry, without any respect unto those great persons who were concerned in them.