2 Chronicles 34:1-13
Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem thirty-one years. He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord and walked in the ways of his father David.
In his twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem of high places. He tore down the altars and the Asherah poles and crushed the idols to power and cut ot pieces all the incense altars throughout Israel.
In the eighteenth year of Josiah's reign, he sent Shaphan, and Maaseiah and Joah to repair the temple of the Lord his God.
Josiah descesrates and demolishes places and objects of pagan worship, and repairs the Temple.
Why?
Assyrian power was declining. So Josiah became gradually freer to take the politically dangerous step of extending his religious reforms into the former northern kingdom of Israel.
These were the alrars built by Josiah's grandfather, King Manasseh.
Josiah is the last good king in Judah, his kingdom was ruined from his grandfather. It was difficulty to restore in his reigned.
How?
Seeking the Lord, there is nothing lack.
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