2 Crônicas 34:3

3 Pois no oitavo ano do seu reinado, sendo ainda moço, começou a buscar o Deus de Davi, seu pai; e no duodécimo ano começou a purificar Judá e Jerusalém, dos altos, dos aserins e das imagens esculpidas e de fundição.

2 Crônicas 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 Crônicas 34:3 In-Context

1 Tinha Josias oito anos quando começou a reinar, e reinou trinta e um anos em Jerusalém.

2 Fez o que era reto aos olhos do Senhor, e andou nos caminhos de Davi, seu pai, sem se desviar deles nem para a direita nem para a esquerda.

3 Pois no oitavo ano do seu reinado, sendo ainda moço, começou a buscar o Deus de Davi, seu pai; e no duodécimo ano começou a purificar Judá e Jerusalém, dos altos, dos aserins e das imagens esculpidas e de fundição.

4 Foram derribados na presença dele os altares dos baalins; e ele derribou os altares de incenso que estavam acima deles; os aserins e as imagens esculpidas e de fundição ele os quebrou e reduziu a pó, que espargiu sobre as sepulturas dos que lhes tinham sacrificado.

5 E os ossos dos sacerdotes queimou sobre os seus altares; e purificou Judá e Jerusalém.