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Posted on 12/14/2020 6:02:30 AM PST by Hebrews 11:6
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FINDS GOD & HIS WORD, TAKES ACTION |
K I N G S 2 2 – 2 3 New International Version, emphases added Abrdgd: the complete text is in your Bible . |
To read 2nd KINGS 22-23 in full To hear MAX McLEAN reading it To hear a DRAMATIZATION of it To watch an ANIMATION of 2nd Kings |
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CHAPTER 22
1 Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem thirty-one years. 2 He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord and followed completely the ways of his father David, not turning aside to the right or to the left.
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3 In the eighteenth year of his reign, King Josiah sent the secretary, Shaphan, to the temple of the Lord. He said: 4 “Go up to Hilkiah the high priest and have him get ready the money that has been brought into the temple of the Lord, which the doorkeepers have collected from the people. 5 Have them entrust it to the men appointed to supervise the work on the temple. And have these men pay the workers who repair the temple of the Lord— 6 the carpenters, the builders and the masons. Also have them purchase timber and dressed stone to repair the temple. 7 But they need not account for the money entrusted to them, because they are honest in their dealings.”
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8 Hilkiah the high priest said to Shaphan the secretary, “I have found the Book of the Law in the temple of the Lord.” He gave it to Shaphan, who read it. 9 Then Shaphan went to the king and reported to him: “Your officials have paid out the money that was in the temple of the Lord and have entrusted it to the workers and supervisors at the temple.” 10 Then Shaphan the secretary informed the king, “Hilkiah the priest has given me a book.” And Shaphan read from it in the presence of the king.
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by JULIUS SCHNOOR VON CAROLSFELD
"Shaphan Reads the Book of Law to Josiah". .
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by LEONAERT BRAMER
"The Reading of the Law before Josiah". .
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11 When the king heard the words of the Book of the Law, he tore his robes. 12 He gave these orders: 13 “Go and inquire of the Lord for me and for the people and for all Judah about what is written in this book that has been found. Great is the Lord’s anger that burns against us because those who have gone before us have not obeyed the words of this book; they have not acted in accordance with all that is written there concerning us.”
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14 Hilkiah the priest, Ahikam, Akbor, Shaphan and Asaiah went to speak to the prophet Huldah.
15 She said to them, “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: Tell the man who sent you to me, 16 ‘This is what the Lord says: I am going to bring disaster on this place and its people, according to everything written in the book the king of Judah has read. 17 Because they have forsaken me and burned incense to other gods and aroused my anger by all the idols their hands have made, my anger will burn against this place and will not be quenched.’ 18 Tell the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of the Lord, ‘This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says concerning the words you heard: 19 Because your heart was responsive and you humbled yourself before the Lord when you heard what I have spoken against this place and its people—that they would become a curse[b] and be laid waste—and because you tore your robes and wept in my presence, I also have heard you, declares the Lord. 20 Therefore I will gather you to your ancestors, and you will be buried in peace. Your eyes will not see all the disaster I am going to bring on this place.’”
So they took her answer back to the king.
CHAPTER 23
1 Then the king called together all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem. 2 He went up to the temple of the Lord with the people of Judah, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the priests and the prophets—all the people from the least to the greatest. He read in their hearing all the words of the Book of the Covenant, which had been found in the temple of the Lord. 3 The king stood by the pillar and renewed the covenant in the presence of the Lord—to follow the Lord and keep his commands, statutes and decrees with all his heart and all his soul, thus confirming the words of the covenant written in this book. Then all the people pledged themselves to the covenant.
4 The king ordered Hilkiah the high priest, the priests next in rank and the doorkeepers to remove from the temple of the Lord all the articles made for Baal and Asherah and all the starry hosts. He burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron Valley and took the ashes to Bethel. 5 He did away with the idolatrous priests appointed by the kings of Judah to burn incense on the high places of the towns of Judah and on those around Jerusalem—those who burned incense to Baal, to the sun and moon, to the constellations and to all the starry hosts. 6 He took the Asherah pole from the temple of the Lord to the Kidron Valley outside Jerusalem and burned it there. He ground it to powder and scattered the dust over the graves of the common people. 7 He also tore down the quarters of the male shrine prostitutes that were in the temple of the Lord, the quarters where women did weaving for Asherah.
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by WILLIAM BRASSEY HOLE
"King Josiah Cleansing The Land Of Idols". .
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8 Josiah brought all the priests from the towns of Judah and desecrated the high places, from Geba to Beersheba, where the priests had burned incense.
10 He desecrated Topheth, which was in the Valley of Ben Hinnom, so no one could use it to sacrifice their son or daughter in the fire to Molek.
12 He pulled down the altars the kings of Judah had erected on the roof near the upper room of Ahaz, and the altars Manasseh had built in the two courts of the temple of the Lord. He removed them from there, smashed them to pieces and threw the rubble into the Kidron Valley. 13
15 Even the altar at Bethel, the high place made by Jeroboam son of Nebat, who had caused Israel to sin—even that altar and high place he demolished. He burned the high place and ground it to powder, and burned the Asherah pole also.
19 Just as he had done at Bethel, Josiah removed all the shrines at the high places that the kings of Israel had built in the towns of Samaria and that had aroused the Lord’s anger. 20 Josiah slaughtered all the priests of those high places on the altars and burned human bones on them. Then he went back to Jerusalem.
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by JOSIAS HERVORMING
"Josiah Has the Idolatrous Priests Killed".
21 The king gave this order to all the people: “Celebrate the Passover to the Lord your God, as it is written in this Book of the Covenant.” 22 Neither in the days of the judges who led Israel nor in the days of the kings of Israel and the kings of Judah had any such Passover been observed. 23 But in the eighteenth year of King Josiah, this Passover was celebrated to the Lord in Jerusalem.
24 Furthermore, Josiah got rid of the mediums and spiritists, the household gods, the idols and all the other detestable things seen in Judah and Jerusalem. This he did to fulfill the requirements of the law written in the book that Hilkiah the priest had discovered in the temple of the Lord. 25 Neither before nor after Josiah was there a king like him who turned to the Lord as he did—with all his heart and with all his soul and with all his strength, in accordance with all the Law of Moses.
26 Nevertheless, the Lord did not turn away from the heat of his fierce anger, which burned against Judah because of all that Manasseh had done to arouse his anger. 27 So the Lord said, “I will remove Judah also from my presence as I removed Israel, and I will reject Jerusalem, the city I chose, and this temple, about which I said, ‘My Name shall be there.’”
28 As for the other events of Josiah’s reign, and all he did, are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Judah?
29 While Josiah was king, Pharaoh Necho king of Egypt went up to the Euphrates River to help the king of Assyria. King Josiah marched out to meet him in battle, but Necho faced him and killed him ..at Megiddo. 30 Josiah’s servants brought his body in a chariot from Megiddo to Jerusalem and buried him in his own tomb. And the people of the land took Jehoahaz son of Josiah and anointed him and made him king in place of his father.
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by WILLIAM BRASSEY HOLE
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by FRANCESCO CONTI
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by ANTONIO ZANCHI
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If you'd like to see for yourself the Bing page
which yielded most of the works above, here is the link:Josiah and the Money for the Temple Image Sources are provided for most individual works.
Where no attribution appears below a work,
the source did not provide the artist's name.
Works are numbered to facilitate your commenting.. .
Links to three masters who painted Biblical scenes prolifically: REMBRANDT HARMENSZOON van RIJN GUSTAV DORÉ
241 wood engravings for
La Grande Bible de ToursJAMES TISSOT
180 watercolors depicting Bible scenes. .
Links to two Bibles with comprehensive illustrations: The Art Bible (1896) The Maciejowski-Morgan Bible (c.1245) . .
This series keeps moving from one Bible passage to another,
so here is a fascinating and enjoyable link to assist in following along:
BIBLE TIMELINE. .
Here are links to the
PREVIOUS 155 POSTS IN THIS SERIES
with descriptive titles to assist you in finding those which interest you. .
Finally, what God did to initiate The Bible In Paintings:
HOW GOD STARTED THIS SERIES
BY SHOWING ME JUST ONE PICTURE. .
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SPECIAL THANKS
to FReeper left that other site,
who allowed God to make her His conduit
for incomparable enthusiasm, encouragement,
education, advice and technical assistance!. .
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NOTES ON MY SELECTION CRITERIA The Bible and its Author are my focus, not the art: this is The Bible in Paintings, not "Great Paintings" nor even "Good Paintings." So, works need not be masterpieces to qualify for inclusion here—they don't need to be housed at the Louvre nor auctioned by Sotheby's. They only need to illustrate successfully some aspect of the Biblical text or, frankly, just tickle my fancy, which I'm always asking the Holy Spirit to guide.
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Q u a l i t yOften, artists misrepresent the Scripture, but unless the error is material, licentious or heretical I usually include the artwork, trusting that the Spirit is perfectly capable of defending Himself. So, with such forgiving filters, it means that you're seeing practically everything I'm finding.
The Protestant Canon does not (for several reasons) follow a strictly chronological sequence. There are many examples where, for God's good purposes, stories are told out-of-order. Nevertheless, for the sake of simplicity, clarity, and my sanity, I have chosen to proceed linearly and methodically from Genesis onward, illustrating each Bible passage as we come to it. Where two passages cover the same incident I omit the second telling, excepting the four Gospels which I will treat synoptically. Now, onward!
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S e q u e n c i n gThe pace here may seem appallingly snail-like to those eager to see their favorite events illustrated. My commission is to search for art on each Bible passage in sequence: if I find enough, then it becomes the next installment, even if undramatic (but where there is little or no art, that Bible passage goes untold here).
P a c i n g Then, there is the human element: this is not actually a daily series, because I can only research, compose, edit and post five or six of these installments weekly. And because I only get to do this series once, I'm taking my time, chiefly by posting everything; if I find lots of art, I don't cherry-pick some and discard the rest. Rather, I line up all of them and then sort them into manageable bunches, often resulting in multiple days' episodes of the same story. Obviously, I like being thorough. Were you in a big hurry?
The Bible is a thick book, as you know; but we'll get there eventually, Lord willing—this is His project, after all. And always remember:
love, joy, peace, patience kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness & self-control is a fruit of the Spirit!. .
Art is merely the Toy Department of Bible study,
so I'm just having fun here—I hope you are, too!
Thank you for your understanding.Hebrews 11:6
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The Holy Spirit is in the business of teaching "all Christians," as you rightly declare, to trust His Word and His counsel for every decision. Trusting Him and acting on that trust is what we will do all day, every day in the Millenial Kingdom and in heaven, so He is getting us ready. It's not unlike Basic Training, preparing soldiers before sending them into battle.
I will indeed take a look at both. I am interested in the thoughts of anyone who is allowing the Holy Spirit to edify them and others through them.
Then you will be interested in an article I wrote on Jacobs prophetic blessing on Judah
Especially the part where he prophesied that The scepter will not leave Judah until Shilo Comes.
I’ll have to text message it to you since I took it down
I was advised tootsie it down because I plan on writing a book on it
I guess there are some unscrupulous publishers who look fir ideas to pass onto well known writers to get good book sales
Do I removed it
But if you are interested I will actually send you a drop boxe link for you to read it
It’s an article I actually added to do as to make it a teaser fir an editor friend
I have a couple very good theological scholars and a few pastors who suggested I expound on it fir a book
Let me know if you are interested
I am guessing you will be
Sure—I’m a sucker for the Spirit’s insights into the Scriptures, by every means He employs.
You have a pm
Your fruitless search for any other treatment of your premise reminds me of my astonishment, when I was researching my book, that no one seemed to have addressed an important and obvious question.
Dan
Yes, I have information that would shed light on the idea that Rome controlled the matters of life and death over those in provinces they controlled as a way to have the locals hold Rome up as the supreme authority the local puppet leaders they installed.
Now mind you, the local puppets did execute citizens, but money was always a great briber to appease the Roman governors, so Rome itself seldom interfered. After all, the religious leaders wanted to ambush and murder Paul. They would have had not his nephew warned the Roman Governor.
Plus years later they executed James. From what my investigation showed was that they did so at a time that Judea was between Pro-councils, thus there was a void of legal Roman authority for a period of time that the Religious leaders took advantage of.
However, the very act that states Rome removed the right of capital punishment is all that was needed to assure the prophecy would be fulfilled.
The sentence would have read,
“”controlled as a way to have the locals hold Rome up as the supreme authority over and above that of the the local puppet leaders they installed.
Probably my favorite king after David. I loved his pure heart.
Dennis is a perfect exemplar of the person who does not dispute the facts of the Gospel but cannot believe because of emotional baggage. He has a vast knowledge of matters biblical--he's lent me a dozen videos presenting historic accounts--but his parents' off-putting harangues still stumble him at 74. But he didn't account for the Holy Spirit sending me to clear his road.
That is far from a rigorous proof, but it is probably satisfactory for the moment. Any reputable publisher would demand much more.
Yes I would be setting it up with substantial information
Since it is an integral part of my theory. I would need at least a chapter to properly set the stage. Especially since I will be using mostly secular evidence to prove that portion of the prophecy
That was my thought.
#26 - click on ‘Image Source’ - incredible detail!
Thanks for drawing attention to it. That is some serious photography with lots o’ pixels.
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