2 Chronicles 34:6-8

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

⁶ And in the cities of Manas′seh, E′phraim, and Simeon, and as far as Naph′tali, in their ruins^[a] round about, ⁷ he broke down the altars, and beat the Ashe′rim and the images into powder, and hewed down all the incense altars throughout all the land of Israel. Then he returned to Jerusalem.

Discovery of the Book of the Law

⁸ Now in the eighteenth year of his reign, when he had purged the land and the house, he sent Shaphan the son of Azali′ah, and Ma-asei′ah the governor of the city, and Jo′ah the son of Jo′ahaz, the recorder, to repair the house of the Lord his God.