2022.06.22 - Interesting People of The Bible - Josiah
Wednesday, June 22, 2022
9:24 AM
1. Josiah - Lineage ETC
a. His name means
i. Healed by Jehovah
ii. Jehovah will support
b. Son of Amon
i. Amon
1. Was 22 when he began to reing
2. Reigned for only 2 years
3. Completely forsook The Lord
4. Was murdered by his servants in his own house
c. Made a king by the people after his father was killed by his servants
d. Was only 8 years old when he began to reign as king
e. Reigned for 31 years
f. First 12 Chapters of Daniel refer to the period of his reign
2. Unwavering Faith From Youth
a. 2 Chronicles 34:1 Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem one and thirty years. 2 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the ways of David his father, and declined neither to the right hand, nor to the left. 3 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. 4 And they brake down the altars of Baalim in his presence; and the images, that were on high above them, he cut down; and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images, he brake in pieces, and made dust of them, and strowed it upon the graves of them that had sacrificed unto them. 5 And he burnt the bones of the priests upon their altars, and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem. 6 And so did he in the cities of Manasseh, and Ephraim, and Simeon, even unto Naphtali, with their mattocks round about. 7 And when he had broken down the altars and the groves, and had beaten the graven images into powder, and cut down all the idols throughout all the land of Israel, he returned to Jerusalem. 8 Now in the eighteenth year of his reign, when he had purged the land, and the house, he sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, and Maaseiah the governor of the city, and Joah the son of Joahaz the recorder, to repair the house of the LORD his God. KJV
b. The state of religion had been pagan idolatry for around 70 years
3. Deeper Than The Rest
a. 2 Kings 23:24 Moreover the workers with familiar spirits, and the wizards, and the images, and the idols, and all the abominations that were spied in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, did Josiah put away, that he might perform the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of the LORD. KJV
b. 2 Kings 23:25 And like unto him was there no king before him, that turned to the LORD with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his might, according to all the law of Moses; neither after him arose there any like him. KJV
4. Josiah - Death of
a. 2 Kings 23:28 Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the Chronicles of the kings of Judah? 29 In his days Pharaoh-nechoh king of Egypt went up against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates: and king Josiah went against him; and he slew him at Megiddo, when he had seen him. 30 And his servants carried him in a chariot dead from Megiddo, and brought him to Jerusalem, and buried him in his own sepulchre. And the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and anointed him, and made him king in his father's stead. KJV
i. Megiddo - OT:4023 Megiddown (Zechariah 12:11) (meg-id-done'); or Megiddow (meg-id-do'); from OT:1413; rendezvous; Megiddon or Megiddo, a place in Palestine: KJV - Megiddo, Megiddon.
1. OT:1413 gadad (gaw-dad'); a primitive root [compare OT:1464]; to crowd; also to gash (as if by pressing into): KJV - assemble (selves by troops), gather (selves togetherself, in troops), cut selves.
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