2 Chronicles 34:1-5 ▼

1 Josiah was a son of eight years in his reigning, and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem.

2 And he did right in the eyes of YHWH and walked in the ways of David his father, and he did not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.

3 And in the eighth year of his reign (and he was still young) he began to seek the God of David his father. And in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, and the Asherah poles, and the carved images, and the molten images.

4 And in his presence they broke down the altars of the Baals, and the incense altars that were on high above them he cut down. And the Asherah poles, and the carved images, and the molten images, he broke in pieces and made dust of them, and he scattered it on the surface of the graves of those who had sacrificed to them.

5 And he burned the bones of the priests on their altars, and he cleansed Judah and Jerusalem,