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.
Forsoþe in þe eiyteþe yeer of þe rewme of his empire, whanne he was yit a child, he bigan to seke God of his fadir Dauid; and in þe twelueþe yeer after þat he bigan, he clenside Juda and Jerusalem fro hiy places, and wodis, and similacris, and grauun ymagis.