2 Chronicles 34:1

1 Josiah was eight years old when he became king; he was ruling in Jerusalem for thirty-one years.

2 Chronicles 34:1 Meaning and Commentary

Ver. 1,2. Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign
2 Chronicles 34:2

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2 Chronicles 34:1 In-Context

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 and Jerusalem.

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 the resting-places of the dead who had made offerings to them.

5 And he had the bones of the priests burned on their altars, and so he made Judah and Jerusalem clean.