Discovery Box2 Chronicles 15:8 
Context15:8 When Asa heard these words and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he was encouraged. 1 He removed the detestable idols from the entire land of Judah and Benjamin and from the cities he had seized in the Ephraimite hill country. He repaired the altar of the Lord in front of the porch of the Lord’s temple. 2
2 Chronicles 33:19
Context33:19 The Annals of the Prophets include his prayer, give an account of how the Lord responded to it, record all his sins and unfaithful acts, and identify the sites where he built high places and erected Asherah poles and idols before he humbled himself. 3
2 Chronicles 34:3-4
Context34:3 In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young, he began to seek the God of his ancestor 4 David. In his twelfth year he began ridding 5 Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, Asherah poles, idols, and images. 34:4 He ordered the altars of the Baals to be torn down, 6 and broke the incense altars that were above them. He smashed the Asherah poles, idols and images, crushed them up and sprinkled the dust over the tombs of those who had sacrificed to them.
2 Chronicles 34:33
Context34:33 Josiah removed all the detestable idols from all the areas belonging to the Israelites and encouraged 7 all who were in Israel to worship the Lord their God. Throughout the rest of his reign 8 they did not turn aside from following the Lord God of their ancestors.
1 tn Heb “strengthened himself.”
2 tn Heb “the porch of the
3 tn Heb “and his prayer and being entreated by him, and all his sin and his unfaithfulness and the places where he built high places and set up Asherah poles and idols before he humbled himself – behold, they are written on the words of his seers.”
4 tn Heb “father.”
5 tn Heb “purifying.”
6 tn Heb “and they tore down before him the altars of the Baals.”
7 tn Or “caused, forced.”
8 tn Heb “all his days.”
