14. Now after this, he built an outer wall to David’s city, on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entrance at the fish gate. He encircled Ophel with it, and raised it up to a very great height; and he put valiant captains in all the fortified cities of Judah.
15. He took away the foreign gods, and the idol out of the Lord’s house, and all the altars that he had built in the mountain of the Lord’s house, and in Jerusalem, and cast them out of the city.
16. He built up the Lord’s altar, and offered sacrifices of peace offerings and of thanksgiving on it, and commanded Judah to serve the Lord, the God of Israel.
17. Nevertheless the people sacrificed still in the high places, but only to the Lord their God.