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2 Chronicles 34:1-3

34:1 Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned for thirty-one years in Jerusalem. ¹  34:2 He did what the Lord approved ²  and followed in his ancestor David’s footsteps; ³  he did not deviate to the right or the left.

34:3 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.