4
He removed the high places, and broke in pieces the pillars, and utterly destroyed the groves, and the brazen serpent which Moses made: because until those days the children of Israel burnt incense to it: and he called it Neesthan.
5
He trusted in the Lord God of Israel; and after him there was not any like him among the kings of Juda, nor among those that were before him.
6
And he clave to the Lord, he departed not from following him; and he kept his commandments, as many as he commanded Moses.
7
And the Lord was with him; and he was wise in all that he undertook: and he revolted from the king of the Assyrians, and served him not.
8
He smote the Philistines to Gaza, and to the border of it, from the tower of the watchmen even to the strong city.