He then sent Hilkiah and some other officials to find a person who could read the Book of the Law in detail. Huldah revealed to them that Judah was going to be brought into captivity for their sins. Especially for the sins of Manasseh, who murdered innocent people during his reign. God would not forgive him for committing these acts. King Josiah then preserves the discovered Book of the Law. He then throws a spectacular Passover feast that is considered one the best in all of the history of Judah.
For some reason, King Josiah wanted to go to war with him. King Neco also informed King Josiah that he should not interfere with his battle plans because the Lord was on his side. The prophet Jeremiah made songs about his Josiah after he had passed. These songs are known as the Lamentations, and they can be found in the Old Testament of the Bible.
But as soon as Josiah died , the people returned to their evil ways, and before his sons reached middle age, the L ORD 's judgment for centuries of evil practices came, and Judah was no more.
Josiah's father, King Amon , was assassinated when Josiah was eight, and he ascended to the throne at that age. At age 19, he undertook reforms to stop idol worship and the evils associated with it. He removed Jerusalem's shrines of Asherah and Baal. He exhumed the bones of idol priests and burned them in those places, to desecrate them so no one would use them again for idol worship. He toured Judah with the same mission.
He even toured parts of Israel, now stripped of its nobility and populated only by those peasants too poor to have been worth Assyria's trouble deporting. At age 25, Josiah decided to rebuild the temple of the L ORD , which hadn't been repaired since the days of King Jotham , a century earlier. He hired builders and placed his secretary Shaphan and the high priest Hilkiah in charge of the work. While the workers were cleaning out long-unused portions of the temple, they found a book.
It looked important, so they gave it to Hilkiah, who gave it to Shaphan, who brought it to King Josiah. Discover Bible verses about King Josiah and his significance in this collection of scripture quotes.
Plus Toggle navigation. Password Assistance. Email address. Josiah in the Bible. Share Tweet Save. Chapter Parallel Compare. Your eyes will not see all the disaster I am going to bring on this place. Then all the people pledged themselves to the covenant. It is not you I am attacking at this time, but the house with which I am at war. God has told me to hurry; so stop opposing God, who is with me, or he will destroy you.
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