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 groves, and the carved images, and the molten images.
Ver. 3. For in the eighth year of his reign.] So soon as he had the reins in his own hands, he began.
He began to seek.] That is, Publicly to show his zeal for God; which was in him of a little child.
And in the twelfth year.] See 2 Kings 23:4,5, &c.