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2 Chronicles 33
²⁴ Finally his servants conspired against him and put him to death in his own house.
²⁵ But the people of the land killed all the conspirators against King Amon, and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his place.
2 Chronicles 34
¹ Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem.
² He did right in the sight of the Lord, and walked in the ways of his father David and did not turn aside to the right or to the left.
³ For in the eighth year of his reign while he was still a youth, he began to seek the God of his father David; and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the Asherim, the carved images and the molten images.
⁴ They tore down the altars of the Baals in his presence, and 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 ground to powder and scattered it on the graves of those who had sacrificed to them.
⁵ Then he burned the bones of the priests on their altars and purged Judah and Jerusalem.
⁶ In the cities of Manasseh, Ephraim, Simeon, even as far as Naphtali, in their surrounding ruins,
⁷ he also tore down the altars and beat the Asherim and the carved images into powder, and chopped down all the incense altars throughout the land of Israel. Then he returned to Jerusalem.
⁸ Now in the eighteenth year of his reign, when he had purged the land and the house, he sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, and Maaseiah an official of the city, and Joah the son of Joahaz the recorder, to repair the house of the Lord his God.
⁹ They came to Hilkiah the high priest and delivered the money that was brought into the house of God, which the Levites, the doorkeepers, had collected from Manasseh and Ephraim, and from all the remnant of Israel, and from all Judah and Benjamin and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.