2 Chronicles 34:3
"And in the eighth year of his reign, and he [being] yet a youth, he began to seek the Lord God of his father David: and in the twelfth year of his reign he began to purge Juda and Jerusalem from the high places, and the groves, and the ornaments for the altars, and the molten images."
2 Chronicles 34:3–5—If Josiah demolished idolatry, then why does it say Manasseh did it earlier?
Contrasting Link: 2 Chronicles 33:15 →
Problem: Here we are informed that Josiah destroyed the altars and idols, but earlier (in 2 Chron. 33:15) Manasseh had destroyed them.
Solution: No human king can root out the fallen human inclination for idolatry. Therefore, Josiah had to redo the same work that his predecessor had done. A good human king can destroy idols, but not the love of idols. And, as long as this love exists, idolatry will live to rear its ugly head again and again.