Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father: and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images.
Bible References
While he
1 Chronicles 22:5
David said, “My son Solomon is young and inexperienced, and the house that is to be built for the Lord must be exceedingly great and famous and glorious in all the lands. Therefore, I must make provision for it.” So David made lavish preparations for it before his death.
1 Chronicles 29:1
Then King David said to all the assembly, “My son Solomon—God has chosen him alone—is young and inexperienced. The task is great because the temple will not be for man but for the Lord God.
Psalm 119:9
ב BetHow can a young man keep his way pure?
By keeping Your word.
By keeping Your
Ecclesiastes 12:1
So remember your Creator in the days of your youth:
Before the days of adversity come,
and the years approach when you will say,
“I have no delight in them”;
and the years approach when you will say,
“I have no delight in them”;
2 Timothy 3:15
and you know that from childhood you have known the sacred Scriptures, which are able to give you wisdom for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.
To seek
2 Chronicles 15:2
So he went out to meet Asa and said to him, “Asa and all Judah and Benjamin, hear me. The Lord is with you when you are with Him. If you seek Him, He will be found by you, but if you abandon Him, He will abandon you.
1 Chronicles 28:9
“As for you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve Him with a whole heart and a willing mind, for the Lord searches every heart and understands the intention of every thought. If you seek Him, He will be found by you, but if you forsake Him, He will reject you forever.
Proverbs 8:17 I love those who love me,
and those who search for me find me.
and those who search for me find me.
Matthew 6:33 But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be provided for you.
Purge
2 Chronicles 33:17
However, the people still sacrificed at the high places, but only to Yahweh their God.
Leviticus 26:30
I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars, and heap your dead bodies on the lifeless bodies of your idols; I will reject you.
2 Kings 23:4
Then the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest and the priests of the second rank and the doorkeepers to bring out of the Lord’s temple all the articles made for Baal, Asherah, and the whole heavenly host. He burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron and carried their ashes to Bethel.