2Ch 34:1-3 | NASB2020 | STEP | Josiah was eight years old when he became king , and he reigned for thirty-one years in Jerusalem .

2 Chronicles 34:1-3

Josiah Succeeds Amon in Judah

1 ^aJosiah was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned for thirty-one years in Jerusalem. 2 ^bHe did what was 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 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 ^{▼▼I.e., wooden symbols of a female deity (Asherah)}Asherim, the carved images, and the cast metal images.