^{4 Ref} He removed the high places, and broke the pillars, and cut down the Asherah: and he broke in pieces the brazen serpent that Moses had made; for to those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it; and he called it Nehushtan.

^{5 Ref} He trusted in Yahweh, the God of Israel; so that after him was none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor [among them] that were before him.

^{6 Ref} For he joined with Yahweh; he didn't depart from following him, but kept his commandments, which Yahweh commanded Moses.

^{7 Ref} Yahweh was with him; wherever he went forth he prospered: and he rebelled against the king of Assyria, and didn't serve him.