2 Chronicles 34:1-7 - The Reign Of Josiah

¹ Josiah was made king when he was eight years old, and he reigned in Jerusalem thirty one years. ² And he did that pleased the LORD, and walked in the ways of David his father, bowing neither to the righthand nor to the left.

³ Insomuch that the eighth year of his reign, when he was yet a lad, he began to seek after the God of David his father. And in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem of hill altars, groves, carved Images, and Images of metal: ⁴ so that they brake down the altars of Baals even in his presence, and the Idols that were upon them he caused to be destroyed. And the groves, carved Images, and Images of metal he brake and made dust of them, and strawed it upon the graves of them that had offered to them. ⁵ And he burnt the bones of the priests upon the altars, and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem. ⁶ And even so did he in the cities of Manasseh, Ephraim, Simeon and of Naphtali thereto. ⁷ And in the wildernesses of them round about he plucked asunder the altars and the groves and did beat them and stamp them to powder, and beat down the idols throughout all the land of Israel: and then returned to Jerusalem again.