2 Chronicles 34:18 — Meaning and Application

2 Chronicles 34:1

"Josiah {was} eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem one and thirty years."

2 Chronicles 34:2

"And he did {that which was} right in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the ways of David his father, and declined {neither} to the right hand, nor to the left."

2 Chronicles 34:3

"For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father: and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images."

2 Chronicles 34:4

"And they brake down the altars of Baalim in his presence; and the images, that {were} on high above them, he cut down; and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images, he brake in pieces, and made dust {of them}, and strowed {it} upon the graves of them that had sacrificed unto them. {the images: or, the sun images} {graves: Heb. face of the graves}"

2 Chronicles 34:5

"And he burnt the bones of the priests upon their altars, and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem."

2 Chronicles 34:6

"And {so did he} in the cities of Manasseh, and Ephraim, and Simeon, even unto Naphtali, with their mattocks round about. {mattocks: or, mauls}"