2 Chronicles 34:2-4

Evangelical Heritage Version

² He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord. He walked in the ways of his father David. He did not turn aside to the right or to the left.

Josiah Cleanses the Land

³ In the eighth year of his reign, when he was still a youth, he began to seek the God of his father David. In the twelfth year he began to purify Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, the Asherah poles, the carved images, and the cast images. ⁴ In his presence they tore down the altars of the Baals. He chopped down the sun pillars, which stood above them. He broke the Asherah poles, the carved images, and the cast images into pieces and ground them to dust, which he scattered over the graves of those who had sacrificed to them.