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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, the Asherah poles, the engraved images, and the molten images.
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ExplanationCommentary
Verse 3. Boy; 16 years old. D.—The kings of Juda were in their minority, till they had completed their 13th year. Grotius.—Cleansed. Hebrew and Septuagint “in the twelfth year he began to purify,” and so forth Bible.—The work was not brought to perfection till six years afterwards, verse 8. Calmet. Tirinus.
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