2 Chronicles 34:3

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still a youth, Josiah began to seek the God of his ancestor David,  and in the twelfth year he began to cleanse Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the Asherah poles, the carved images,  and the cast images.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 33:22

He did what was evil in the Lord’s sight, just as his father Manasseh had done.  Amon sacrificed to all the carved images that his father Manasseh had made, and he served them.

2 Chronicles 15:2

So he went out to meet Asa and said to him, ‘Asa and all Judah and Benjamin, hear me. The Lord is with you  when you are with him. If you seek him, he will be found by you,  but if you abandon him, he will abandon you.

Proverbs 8:17

I love those who love me, and those who search for me find me.

2 Chronicles 33:17

However, the people still sacrificed at the high places,  but only to the Lord their God.

2 Timothy 3:15

and you know that from infancy you have known the sacred Scriptures,  which are able to give you wisdom for salvation  through faith in Christ Jesus.

Matthew 6:33

But seek first the kingdom of God   , and his righteousness,   and all these things will be provided for you.

Ecclesiastes 12:1

So remember your Creator in the days of your youth: Before the days of adversity come, and the years approach when you will say, ‘I have no delight in them’;

2 Chronicles 30:14

They proceeded to take away the altars that were in Jerusalem,  and they took away the incense altars and threw them into the Kidron Valley.

1 Chronicles 29:1

Then King David said to all the assembly, ‘My son Solomon #– #God has chosen him alone #– #is young and inexperienced. The task is great  because the building will not be built for a human but for the Lord God.

1 Chronicles 28:9

‘As for you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him wholeheartedly and with a willing mind,  for the Lord searches every heart and understands the intention of every thought.  If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you abandon him, he will reject you for ever.

1 Chronicles 22:5

David said, ‘My son Solomon is young and inexperienced, and the house that is to be built for the Lord must be exceedingly great and famous and glorious in all the lands.  Therefore, I will make provision for it.’ So David made lavish preparations for it before his death.

2 Kings 23:14

He broke the sacred pillars into pieces,  cut down the Asherah poles,  then filled their places with human bones.

2 Kings 23:4

Then the king commanded the high priest Hilkiah  and the priests of the second rank  and the doorkeepers to bring out of the Lord’s sanctuary all the articles made for Baal, Asherah, and all the stars in the sky.  He burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron and carried their ashes to Bethel.

2 Kings 18:4

He removed the high places, shattered the sacred pillars, and cut down the Asherah poles.  He broke into pieces the bronze snake that Moses made,  for until then the Israelites were burning incense to it. It was called Nehushtan.

1 Kings 13:2

The man of God cried out against the altar by the word of the Lord: ‘Altar, altar, this is what the Lord says, “A son will be born to the house of David, named Josiah, and he will sacrifice on you the priests of the high places who are burning incense on you. Human bones will be burned on you.” ’

Leviticus 26:30

I will destroy your high places, cut down your shrines,  and heap your lifeless bodies on the lifeless bodies of your idols;  I will reject you.

Exodus 34:13

Instead, you must tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, and chop down their Asherah poles.

2 Chronicles 34:33

So Josiah removed everything that was detestable from all the lands belonging to the Israelites,  and he required all who were present in Israel to serve the Lord their God. Throughout his reign they did not turn aside from following the Lord, the God of their ancestors.

Micah 1:5

All this will happen because of Jacob’s rebellion and the sins of the house of Israel. What is the rebellion of Jacob? Isn’t it Samaria? And what is the high place of Judah? Isn’t it Jerusalem?

2 Kings 10:27

and they tore down the pillar  of Baal. Then they tore down the temple of Baal and made it a latrine   #– #which it still is today.

2 Kings 20:5

‘Go back and tell Hezekiah, the leader  of my people, “This is what the Lord God of your ancestor David says: I have heard your prayer;  I have seen your tears. Look, I will heal you. On the third day from now you will go up to the Lord’s temple.

2 Chronicles 14:6

Because the land experienced peace, Asa built fortified cities in Judah.  No one made war with him in those days because the Lord gave him rest.

2 Chronicles 33:15

He removed the foreign gods and the idol  from the Lord’s temple, along with all the altars that he had built on the mountain of the Lord’s temple and in Jerusalem, and he threw them outside the city.

Proverbs 20:11

Even a young man is known by his actions – by whether his behaviour is pure and upright.