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 purge Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the Asherim, and the graven and the molten images.
3 Hi lembe ra vunhungu ra ku fuma kakwe, loko a ha ri mufana,+ a sungula ku lava+ Xikwembu xa Davhida tata wakwe; hi lembe ra vu-12 a sungula ku basisa+ Yuda na Yerusalema hi ku susa tindhawu leti tlakukeke+ ni timhandzi to kwetsima+ ni swifaniso leswi vatliweke+ ni swifaniso leswi endliweke hi ku n'okisiwa.