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And in the eighth year of his reign, and he was still a boy, he began to seek to the God of his father David; and in the twelfth year he began to cleanse Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the Asherahs, and the graven images, andthe casted images.

And they broke down before him the altars of the Baals, and the images that were on high above them, and he cut down the Asherahs, and the graven images, and the molten images he broke downand beat small, and scattered on the surfaceof the grave of those who sacrificed to them.

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

and in the cities of Manasseh, and Ephraim, and Simeon, even to Naphtali, with their tools all around.

And he broke down the altars and the Asherahs, and he had beaten down the graven images very small; and he had cut down all the images in all the land of Israel, and returned to Jerusalem.