And in the eighth year of his reign (when he was yet a [a]child) 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 molten images.

And they brake down [b]in his sight the altars of Baal, and he caused to cut down the images that were on high upon them: he brake also the groves, and the carved images and the molten images, and stamped them to powder, and strowed it upon the graves of them that had sacrificed unto them.

Also he burnt the [c]bones of the Priests upon their altars, and purged Judah and Jerusalem.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 34:3 When he was but sixteen years old he showed himself zealous of God’s glory, and at twenty years old he abolished idolatry, and restored the true religion.
  2. 2 Chronicles 34:4 Which showeth that he would see the reformation with his own eyes.
  3. 2 Chronicles 34:5 Read 2 Kings 23:16.

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