For in the eighth year of his reign while he was still a youth, he began to (A)seek the God of his father David; and in the twelfth year he began (B)to purge Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the [a]Asherim, the carved images, and the cast metal images. They tore down the altars of the Baals in his presence, and he chopped down (C)the incense altars that were high above them; also he broke in pieces the Asherim, the carved images, and the cast metal images, and (D)ground them to powder, and scattered it on the graves of those who had sacrificed to them.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 34:3 I.e., wooden symbols of a female deity (Asherah)

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