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
For David thus thought, "Solomon my son is young and tender, and the house that is to be built for the LORD, must exceed in greatness, that it may be spoken of and praised in all lands. I will therefore make ordinance for it." And so David prepared abundance before his death.
1 Chronicles 29:1
And David the king said unto all the congregation, "God hath specially chosen Solomon my son which is yet young and tender, and the work is great, for the house is not for man, but for the LORD God.
Psalm 119:9
{Beth} Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? Even by ruling himself after thy word.
Ecclesiastes 12:1
Remember thy maker in thy youth, before the days of adversity come, and or the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, "I have no pleasure in them";
2 Timothy 3:15
And forasmuch also as thou hast known holy scripture of a child, which is able to make thee wise unto salvation through the faith, which is in Christ Jesus.

To seek

2 Chronicles 15:2
And he went out against Asa and said to him, "Hear me Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin: The LORD is with you, while ye be with him, and if ye shall seek him, he will be found of you: but and if ye shall forsake him, he will forsake you.
1 Chronicles 28:9
And thou, Solomon my son: know God thy father and serve him with a pure heart and lust of soul. For the LORD searcheth all hearts and understandeth all the imaginations of thoughts. If thou shalt seek him, he will be found of thee: But and if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off forever.
Proverbs 8:17
I am loving unto those that love me, and they that seek me early, shall find me.
Matthew 6:33
But rather, seek ye first the kingdom of heaven, and the righteousness thereof; and all these things shall be ministered unto you.

Purge

2 Chronicles 33:17
Nevertheless, the people did offer still in the hill altars; howbeit unto the LORD their God only.
Leviticus 26:30
And I will destroy your altars built upon high hills, and overthrow your images, and cast your carcasses upon the bodies of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you.
2 Kings 23:4
And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest and the inferior priests and the keepers of the door, to bring out of the temple of the LORD, all the vessels that were made for Baal and for the grove and for all the host of heaven. And he burnt them without Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron and carried the ashes of them into Bethel.