2 And he ⁿdid what was right in the eyes of the Lord, and walked in the ways of David his father; and he did not ^oturn aside to the right hand or to the left. 3 For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet a boy, he began to seek the God of David his father, and in the twelfth year he began to ^ppurge Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the Asherim, and the carved and the metal images.