For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father: 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.
Study Helps
Interpretation
This verse continues the thought already in view and fits the wider themes of temple and reform in 2 Chronicles.
Read with
This thought runs through 2 Chronicles 34:3-7.
Glossary
- Jerusalem Place
- Biblical settlement. Modern identification: Jerusalem.
- David Person
- Beloved, the eighth and youngest son of Jesse, a citizen of Bethlehem. His father seems to have been a man in humble life. His mother’s name is not recorded. Some think she was the Nahash of 2 Sam. 17:25 .