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.
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Gill's Exposition
And they broke down the altars of Baalim in his presence,.... He not only ordered them to be broke down, but he went in person, and saw it done; these were the altars Manasseh had reared up to the…
Barnes' Notes
He began to purge Judah - Jeremiah’s first prophecies Jer. 2–3 appear to have been coincident with Josiah’s earlier efforts to uproot idolatry, and must have greatly strengthened his hands.
Concerning Josiah we are here told, 1. That he came to the crown when he was very young, only eight years old (yet his infancy did not debar him from his right), and he reigned thirty-one years (Ch2…
Cambridge Bible
3 7 (cp. 2Ch 34:33; 2Ki 13:4-20). Josiah destroys the Symbols of Idolatry
3. in the eighth year … and in the twelfth The two dates given in this verse seem to be "doublettes," i.e. various readings…
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