He tore down the altars and Asherah poles, crushed the idols to powder, and cut to pieces all the incense altars throughout the land of Israel. Then he returned to Jerusalem.
When all this had ended, the Israelites in attendance went out to the cities of Judah and broke up the sacred pillars, c
And I took that sinful thing, the calf you had made, and burned it in the fire. Then I crushed it and ground it to powde
Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem thirty-one years.