³ For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was still ^(A)young, he began to ^(B)seek the God of his father David; and in the twelfth year he began ^(C)to purge Judah and Jerusalem ^(D)of the ^[a]high places, the wooden images, the carved images, and the molded images.

²² But he did evil in the sight of the Lord, as his father Manasseh had done; for Amon sacrificed to all the carved images which his father Manasseh had made, and served them.

² And he went out ^[a]to meet Asa, and said to him: “Hear me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin. ^(A)The Lord is with you while you are with Him. ^(B)If you seek Him, He will be found by you; but ^(C)if you forsake Him, He will forsake you.

^17 (A)Nevertheless the people still sacrificed on the ^[a]high places, but only to the Lord their God.

¹⁵ and that from childhood you have known ^(A)the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.

³³ But ^(A)seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.

Seek God in Early Life

ב BETH

¹⁴ They arose and took away the ^(A)altars that were in Jerusalem, and they took away all the incense altars and cast them into the Brook ^(B)Kidron.