³ For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet a boy, he began to seek the God of David his father, and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the ^(A)Asherim, and the carved and the metal images.

³ He took away the foreign altars ^(A)and the high places and broke down ^(B)the pillars and cut down the ^(C)Asherim