- Prayer and Worship - Beliefs and Teachings - Issues and Action
- Catholic Giving - About USCCB Josiah’s Reforms. 1a Josiah was
eight years old when he became king, and he reigned thirty-one
years in Jerusalem. 2He did what was right in the LORD’s sight,
walking in the way of David his father, not turning right or
left. 3b In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still a
youth, he began to seek after the God of David his father. Then
in his twelfth year* he began to purify Judah and Jerusalem of
the high places, the asherahs, and the carved and molten images.
4In his presence, the altars of the Baals were torn down; the
incense stands erected above them he broke down; the asherahs
and the carved and molten images he smashed and beat into dust,
which he scattered over the tombs of those who had sacrificed to
them; 5and the bones of the priests he burned upon their altars.
Thus he purified Judah and Jerusalem. 6He did likewise in the
cities of Manasseh, Ephraim, Simeon, and in the ruined villages
of the s