2 Chronicles 34:3
King James Version
“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, and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images.”
Context
1Josiah eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem one and thirty years.
2And he did right in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the ways of David his father, and declined to the right hand, nor to the left.
3For 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, and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images.
4And they brake down the altars of Baalim in his presence; and the images, that on high above them, he cut down; and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images, he brake in pieces, and made dust and strowed upon the graves of them that had sacrificed unto them.
5And he burnt the bones of the priests upon their altars, and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem.
6And in the cities of Manasseh, and Ephraim, and Simeon, even unto Naphtali, with their mattocks round about.