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2 Chronicles 34:3 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" 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, the Asherah poles, the engraved images, and the molten images. "

2 Chronicles 34:3

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1 Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem.

2 He did that which was right in the LORD’s eyes, and walked in the ways of David his father, and didn’t turn away to the right hand or to the left.

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, the Asherah poles, the engraved images, and the molten images.

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

5 He burned the bones of the priests on their altars, and purged Judah and Jerusalem.

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2 Chronicles 17:6

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"His heart was lifted up in the ways of the LORD. Furthermore, he took away the high places and the Asherah poles out of Judah."

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2 Kings 21:3

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2 Chronicles 33:3

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"For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down; and he raised up altars for the Baals, made Asheroth, and worshiped all the army of the sky, and served them."

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2 Kings 23:5

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"He got rid of the idolatrous priests whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah and in the places around Jerusalem; those also who burned incense to Baal, to the sun, to the moon, to the planets, and to all the army of the sky."

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1 Kings 3:3

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"Solomon loved the LORD, walking in the statutes of David his father, except that he sacrificed and burned incense in the high places."

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1 Kings 12:33

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"He went up to the altar which he had made in Bethel on the fifteenth day in the eighth month, even in the month which he had devised of his own heart; and he ordained a feast for the children of Israel, and went up to the altar to burn incense."

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2 Chronicles 34:1

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

2 Chronicles 34:2

"He did that which was right in the LORD’s eyes, and walked in the ways of David his father, and didn’t turn away to the right hand or to the left."

2 Chronicles 34:4

"They broke down the altars of the Baals in his presence; and he cut down the incense altars that were on high above them. He broke the Asherah poles, the engraved images, and the molten images in pieces, made dust of them, and scattered it on the graves of those who had sacrificed to them."

2 Chronicles 34:5

"He burned the bones of the priests on their altars, and purged Judah and Jerusalem."

2 Chronicles 34:6

"He did this in the cities of Manasseh, Ephraim, and Simeon, even to Naphtali, around in their ruins."

2 Chronicles 34:7

"He broke down the altars, beat the Asherah poles and the engraved images into powder, and cut down all the incense altars throughout all the land of Israel, then returned to Jerusalem."

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