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2 Chronicles 34:1-7 (Basic)

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¹ Josiah was eight years old when he became king; he was ruling in Jerusalem for thirty-one years. ² And he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, walking in the ways of his father David, without turning to the right hand or to the left. ³ In the eighth year of his rule, while he was still young, his heart was first turned to the God of his father David; and in the twelfth year he undertook the clearing away of all the high places and the pillars and the images of wood and metal from Judah ⁴ He had the altars of the Baals broken down, while he himself was present; and the sun-images which were placed on high over them he had cut down; and the pillars of wood and the metal images he had broken up and crushed to dust, dropping the dust over th ⁵ And he had the bones of the priests burned on their altars, and so he made Judah and Jerusalem clean. ⁶ And in all the towns of Manasseh and Ephraim and Simeon as far as Naphtali, he made waste their houses round about. ⁷ He had the altars and the pillars of wood pulled down and the images crushed to dust, and all the sun-images cut down, through all the land of Israel, and then he went back to Jerusalem.

This passage is referenced in the following study note(s):
(v. 1) Bible Talk: Getting Back to the Book (2006-04-18)
(v. 2) Bible Talk: Getting Back to the Book (2006-04-18)
(v. 3) Bible Talk: Getting Back to the Book (2006-04-18)
(v. 4) Bible Talk: Getting Back to the Book (2006-04-18)
(v. 5) Bible Talk: Getting Back to the Book (2006-04-18)
(v. 6) Bible Talk: Getting Back to the Book (2006-04-18)
(v. 7) Bible Talk: Getting Back to the Book (2006-04-18)

Definition(s):
Ephraim (Eff-ra-im): fruitful; increasing
Jerusalem (Je-roo-sa-lem): vision of peace
Judah (Joo-da): the praise of the Lord; confession
Manasseh (Man-ass-e): forgetfulness; he that is forgotten
Simeon (Simm-e-on): that hears or obeys; that is heard
Simeon (Sigh-mon): that hears or obeys; that is heard