Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And when he had broken down the altars and the groves, and had beaten the graven images into powder, and cut down all the idols throughout all the land of Israel, he returned to Jerusalem.

He returned

Bible References

Beaten

2 Chronicles 34:1
Josiah was eight years old when he became king; he was ruling in Jerusalem for thirty-one years.
Deuteronomy 9:21
And I took your sin, the image which you had made, and put it in the fire and had it hammered and crushed very small till it was only dust: and the dust I put in the stream flowing down from the mountain.

He returned

2 Chronicles 31:1
Now when all this was over, all the men of Israel who were present went out into the towns of Judah, causing the stone pillars to be broken up and the wood pillars to be cut down, pulling down the high places and the altars in all Judah and Benjamin, as well as in Ephraim and Manasseh, till all were gone. Then all the children of Israel went back to their towns, every man to his property.

Basic English, produced by Mr C. K. Ogden of the Orthological Institute - public domain