2Ch 34:1-3 | NASB1995 | STEP | Josiah was eight years old when he became king , and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem .

2 Chronicles 34:1-3

1 ^aJosiah was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem. 2 ^bHe did right in the sight of the Lord, and walked in the ways of his father David and did not turn aside to the right or to the left. 3 For in the eighth year of his reign while he was still a youth, he began to ^cseek the God of his father David; and in the twelfth year he began ^dto purge Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the Asherim, the carved images and the molten images.