2 Chronicles 34:7-9

New American Standard Bible 1995

⁷ he also tore down the altars and ^(A)beat the Asherim and the carved images into powder, and chopped down all the incense altars throughout the land of Israel. Then he returned to Jerusalem.

Josiah Repairs the Temple

^8 (B)Now in the eighteenth year of his reign, when he had purged the land and the house, he sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, and Maaseiah ^(C)an official of the city, and Joah the son of Joahaz the recorder, to repair the house of the Lord his God. ⁹ They came to ^(D)Hilkiah the high priest and delivered the money that was brought into the house of God, which the Levites, the ^[a]doorkeepers, had collected ^[b]from ^(E)Manasseh and Ephraim, and from all the remnant of Israel, and from all Judah and Benjamin and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.