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 Asherim, the carved images and the molten images. They tore down the altars of the Baals in his presence, and (C)the incense altars that were high above them he chopped down; also the Asherim, the carved images and the molten images he broke in pieces and (D)ground to powder and scattered it on the graves of those who had sacrificed to them.

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