2 Chronicles 34:3-7
Read 2 Chronicles 34 in full →3Now in the eighth year of his reign while he was still a youth, he began to aseek the God of his father David; and in the twelfth year he began bto cleanse Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the Asherim, the graven images, and the molten images. 4And they tore down the altars of the Baals in his presence, and athe incense altars that were high above them he cut in pieces; also the Asherim, the graven images, and the molten images he broke in pieces and bground to powder and scattered it on the graves of those who had sacrificed to them. 5Then ahe burned the bones of the priests on their altars and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem. 6aAnd in the cities of Manasseh, Ephraim, Simeon, even as far as Naphtali, in their surrounding 1ruins, 7he also tore down the altars and abeat the Asherim and the graven images into powder, and cut in pieces all the incense altars throughout the land of Israel. Then he returned to Jerusalem.