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 Asherim, and the graven images, and the molten images.

In the eighth year of his rule, while he was still young, his heart was first turned to the God of his father David; and in the twelfth year he undertook the clearing away of all the high places and the pillars and the images of wood and metal from Judah and Jerusalem.

Και εν τω ογδοω ετει της βασιλειας αυτου, νεος ων ετι, ηρχισε να εκζητη τον Θεον του Δαβιδ του πατρος αυτου· και εν τω δωδεκατω ετει ηρχισε να καθαριζη τον Ιουδαν και την Ιερουσαλημ απο των υψηλων τοπων και απο των αλσεων και των γλυπτων και των χωνευτων.

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.