⁶ And so he did in the cities of Manasseh, Ephraim, and Simeon, as far as Naphtali and all around, with ^[a]axes. ⁷ When he had broken down the altars and the wooden images, had ^(A)beaten the carved images into powder, and cut down all the incense altars throughout all the land of Israel, he returned to Jerusalem.

Hilkiah Finds the Book of the Law^(B)

^8 (C)In the eighteenth year of his reign, when he had purged the land and the ^[b]temple, he sent ^(D)Shaphan the son of Azaliah, Maaseiah the ^(E)governor of the city, and Joah the son of Joahaz the recorder, to repair the house of the Lord his God.