³ In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young, he began to seek the God^(A) of his father David. In his twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem of high places, Asherah poles and idols.

³ He removed the foreign altars^(A) and the high places, smashed the sacred stones^(B) and cut down the Asherah poles.^[a](C)