2 Cronache 34:3

3 L’ottavo anno del suo regno, mentre era ancora giovinetto, cominciò a cercare l’Iddio di Davide suo padre; e il dodicesimo anno cominciò a purificare Giuda e Gerusalemme dagli alti luoghi, dagl’idoli d’Astarte, dalle immagini scolpite e dalle immagini fuse.

2 Cronache 34:3 Meaning and Commentary

2 Chronicles 34:3

For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young,
&c.] Being in the sixteenth year of his age; though Kimchi thinks it was the very year he began to reign, which was the eighth of his age; and Jarchi observes, it may be interpreted, "though he was young, he began to seek after the God of David his father"; to pray unto him, to seek after the knowledge of him, and the true manner of worshipping him, what were his will, commands, and ordinances; the Targum is,

``to seek instruction or doctrine of the Lord God of David his father,''

to be taught his ways, such as David his great ancestor walked in, and whom he chose to follow:

and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the
high places, and the groves and the carved images, and the molten
images;
which were made in the times of Manasseh; and though removed by him when humbled, were restored in the reign of Amon. Now Josiah purged the land from these, by putting them down, and destroying them; and this he did when he was twenty years of age, having now more authority, being out of his minority, and from under guardians, and one year before Jeremiah began to prophesy, ( Jeremiah 1:1-2:37 ) .

2 Cronache 34:3 In-Context

1 Giosia aveva otto anni quando cominciò a regnare, e regnò trentun anni a Gerusalemme.

2 Egli fece ciò ch’è giusto agli occhi dell’Eterno, e camminò per le vie di Davide suo padre senza scostarsene né a destra né a sinistra.

3 L’ottavo anno del suo regno, mentre era ancora giovinetto, cominciò a cercare l’Iddio di Davide suo padre; e il dodicesimo anno cominciò a purificare Giuda e Gerusalemme dagli alti luoghi, dagl’idoli d’Astarte, dalle immagini scolpite e dalle immagini fuse.

4 E in sua presenza furon demoliti gli altari de’ Baali e abbattute le colonne solari che v’eran sopra; e frantumò gl’idoli d’Astarte, le immagini scolpite e le statue; e le ridusse in polvere, che sparse sui sepolcri di quelli che aveano offerto loro de’ sacrifizi;

5 e bruciò le ossa dei sacerdoti sui loro altari, e così purificò Giuda e Gerusalemme.