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 idol poles, and the carved images, and the molten images.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
The host of heaven. The sun, moon, and stars, (Challoner) in imitation of the Phoenicians and ancient Chanaanites.