Josiah Destroys Idols
- Dates
- 629 BC
Josiah, king of Judah, while still a teen—ager, destroys all the idols and altars and restores true worship in the land.
Bible passages
- 2 Chronicles 34:3-7
3 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. 4 And they brake down the altars of Baalim in his presence; and the images, that were on high above them, he cut down; and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images, he brake in pieces, and made dust of them, and strowed it upon the graves of them that had sacrificed unto them. 5 And he burnt the bones of the priests upon their altars, and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem. …
Text of the King James Version.