2 Chronicles 34:3 meaning and explanation
In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young, Josiah began to seek the God of his father David, and in the twelfth year he began to cleanse Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the Asherah poles, the carved idols, and the cast images.
2 Chronicles 34:3, Berean Standard Bible
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Josiah became king at eight, so in his eighth year he was about sixteen. The Chronicler, writing after the exile, presents him as a second David who sought the God of his ancestor rather than the idols his own father Amon had served.
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