The Bible In Paintings: KING JOSIAH FINDS GOD AND HIS WORD

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KING JOSIAH
FINDS GOD
AND HIS WORD

2^nd KINGS
CHAPTERS 22-23

Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem thirty-one years. He did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, not turning aside to the right or to the left.

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"King Josiah"

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Hilkiah the high priest said, “I have found the Book of the Law in the temple of the LORD.” He gave it to Shaphan, who read from it in the presence of the king.

When the king heard the words of the Book of the Law, he tore his robes. He gave these orders: “Go and inquire of the LORD about what is written in this book that has been found. Great is the LORD’s anger that burns against us because our fathers have not obeyed the words of this book; they have not acted in accordance with all that is written there concerning us.”

The prophetess Huldah said to them,
“ ‘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. Because they have forsaken me and burned incense to other gods and provoked me to anger by all the idols their hands have made, my anger will burn against this place and will not be quenched.’ Tell the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of the LORD, ‘Because your heart was responsive and you humbled yourself before the LORD, and because you tore your robes and wept in my presence, I have heard you, declares the LORD. Therefore I will gather you to your fathers, and you will be buried in peace. Your eyes will not see all the disaster I am going to bring on this place.’ ”

Then the king called together all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem. He went up to the temple of the LORD with the men of Judah, the people 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. The king stood by the pillar and renewed the covenant in the presence of the LORD—to follow the LORD and keep his commands, regulations 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.

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"Josiah's Temple Workers Discover the Law of Moses"

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"High Priest Hilkiah"

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"Josiah Hearing the Book of the Law"

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"King Josiah"

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LEONAERT BRAMER
"Shaphan Reading The Book Of Law To King Josiah"

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LEONAERT BRAMER
"The Reading of the Law before Josiah"

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"Josiah Hearing the Book of the Law"

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JULIUS SCHNOOR VON CAROLSFELD
"Shaphan Reads the Book of Law to Josiah"

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"King Josiah Tears His Robes"

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"Josiah with the Book of the Law"

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The king ordered Hilkiah the high priest 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. He also tore down the quarters of the male shrine prostitutes, which were in the temple of the LORD. He desecrated Topheth, so no one could use it to sacrifice his son or daughter in the fire to Molech.

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.” Not since the days of the judges who led Israel, nor throughout the days of the kings of Israel and the kings of Judah, had any such Passover been observed. But in the eighteenth year of King Josiah, this Passover was celebrated to the LORD in Jerusalem.

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. 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.

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"Josiah Has the Idol Priests Murdered"

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WILLIAM BRASSEY HOLE
"King Josiah Cleansing the Land of Idols"

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"King Josiah and His Men Destroying a Pagan Altar"

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PHILIP GALLÉ
"Destruction of the Temples of Ashtaroth and Chemosh"

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 provoke him to anger. 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, ‘There shall my Name be.’ ”

While Josiah was king, Pharaoh Neco 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 Neco faced him and killed him at Megiddo. Josiah’s servants brought his body in a chariot from Megiddo to Jerusalem and buried him in his own tomb.

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WILLIAM BRASSEY HOLE
"The Death of King Josiah at Megiddo"

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FRANCESCO CONTI
"Death of King Josiah"

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ANTONIO ZANCHI
"The Death of King Josiah"

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GEOPOLITICAL
ISRAEL REJECTS GOD, GETS BANISHED
ISRAEL REJECTS ASSYRIANS vs KING HEZEKIAH
HEZEKIAH'S ILLNESS & FOLLY
KING JOSIAH FINDS GOD & HIS WORD
BABYLON CONQUERS JUDAH

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Good Morning, Dan. :-)

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Mary-Lou! Have a blessed Lord’s Day!

[null and void]

Megiddo? THAT Megiddo?

[etabeta]

Always admired the paintings of William Brassey Hole. Of course I drool in front of stained glass windows! Thanks, Dan and good morning.

[reviled downesdad]

Read 2 chronicles 34 today about Josiah.

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Agree entirely, Alba, although I’ve managed so far to refrain from drooling.

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Yep!

[Allegra]

I so enjoy these posts. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for the work you do putting these together.

[InkStone]

Good Morning Dan, and good morning to all.
This is certainly a story which looks more relevant every day.

“The king ordered Hilkiah the high priest to remove from the temple of the LORD all the articles made for Baal and Asherah and all the starry hosts.”

This sounds somewhat like many of our ‘churches’ today.

Thank you Dan, and much appreciate each of you here.

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Thanks so much, Allegra--lovely to hear.

But it's not exactly "work" for me; instead, God asked me to do this and then He made it pure fun to do! That's the kind of Lord we have.

Dan

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There is nothing new under the sun, Leon.

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(Read 2 chronicles 34 today about Josiah.)

Did you mean this post for the author of the Thread?

[jjotto]

2 Chronicles 35 contains the detail that Josiah ordered the Ark of the Covenant put in the Temple permanently.

Because Huldah had previously prophesied destruction, this placing of the Ark is seen as actually hiding it so that it would survive destruction.

[Red Badger]

I think the names “Josiah” and “Jesus” have the same derivation..............

[Red Badger]

2 Chronicles 35:

20 After all this, when Josiah had prepared the temple, Necho king of Egypt came up to fight against Charchemish by Euphrates: and Josiah went out against him.

21 But he sent ambassadors to him, saying, What have I to do with thee, thou king of Judah? I come not against thee this day, but against the house wherewith I have war: for God commanded me to make haste: forbear thee from meddling with God, who is with me, that he destroy thee not.

22 Nevertheless Josiah would not turn his face from him, but disguised himself, that he might fight with him, and hearkened not unto the words of Necho from the mouth of God, and came to fight in the valley of Megiddo.

23 And the archers shot at king Josiah; and the king said to his servants, Have me away; for I am sore wounded.

24 His servants therefore took him out of that chariot, and put him in the second chariot that he had; and they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died, and was buried in one of the sepulchres of his fathers. And all Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah.

25 And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah: and all the singing men and the singing women spake of Josiah in their lamentations to this day, and made them an ordinance in Israel: and, behold, they are written in the lamentations.

26 Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and his goodness, according to that which was written in the law of the Lord,

27 And his deeds, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah...................

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Yes—closely related if not identical.

[Red Badger]

Chronicles usually gives more information than Kings.

Kind like ABCNNBCBS vs FOX......................