3. For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young, he began to seek the God of his father David; and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the wooden images, the carved images, and the molded images.
4. They broke down the altars of the Baals in his presence, and the incense altars which were above them he cut down; and the wooden images, the carved images, and the molded images he broke in pieces, and made dust of them and scattered it on the graves of those who had sacrificed to them.
5. He also burned the bones of the priests on their altars, and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem.
6. And so he did in the cities of Manasseh, Ephraim, and Simeon, as far as Naphtali and all around, with axes.