24 You must not bow down to their gods or be induced to serve them, and you must not make anything like their works,+ but you will without fail throw them down and you will without fail break down their sacred pillars.+

5 “On the other hand, this is what YOU should do to them: Their altars YOU should pull down,+ and their sacred pillars YOU should break down,+ and their sacred poles*+ YOU should cut down,+ and their graven images YOU should burn with fire.+

3 And in the eighth year of his reigning, while he was still a boy,+ he started to search+ for the God of David his forefather; and in the twelfth year he started to cleanse+ Judah and Jerusalem from the high places+ and the sacred poles+ and the graven images+ and the molten statues.