Josiah
And he cried against the altar in the word of the LORD, and
said, O altar, altar, thus saith the LORD; Behold, a child
shall be born unto the house of David, Josiah by name; and
upon thee shall he offer the priests of the high places that
burn incense upon thee, and men's bones shall be burnt upon
thee....
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And the people of the land slew all them that had conspired
against king Amon; and the people of the land made Josiah his
son king in his stead....
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But the people of the land slew all them that had conspired
against king Amon; and the people of the land made Josiah his
son king in his stead....
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Josiah or Yoshiyahu (Hebrew: יֹאשִׁיָּהוּ, Modern Yošiyyáhu Tiberian
Yôšiyyāhû, "supported of Yahweh (YHWH)"; Greek: Ιωσιας; Latin:
Josias; in English pronounced /dʒɵˈzaɪ.ə/[1]) (c. 649–609 BC)
was a king of Judah (641–609 BC) who instituted major reforms.
Josiah is credited by some historians with having established
or discovered important Je...
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o-si'-a (yo'shiyahu, "Yahweh supports him"; Ioseias; the
King James Version Josias (which see)):
I. SOURCES FOR HIS LIFE AND TIMES
1. Annalistic
2. Prophetic
3. Memorial
II. TRAITS OF HIS REIGN
1. Situation at the Beginning
2. Finding of the Law
3. The Great Reform
4. Disaster at Megiddo
The name given 6 years before the death of his grandfather
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-1. King of Judah
2Ki 21:24-26; 22:1; 1Ch 3:14; 2Ch 33:25
Ancestor of Jesus
Mt 1:10,11
Killed in battle with Pharaoh-necho
2Ki 23:29,30; 2Ch 35:20-24
Lamentations for
2Ch 35:25
Piety of: exemplified in his repairing of the temple
2Ki 22:3-7; 2Ch 34:1-4
Solicitude when the copy of the law was discovered and
read
to him
2Ki 22:8-20; 2Ch ...
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(whom Jehovah heals).
1. The son of Amon and Jedidah, succeeded his father
B.C. 641, in the eighty years of his age, and reigned 31
years. His history is contained in 2Ki 22:1 ... 24:30; 2Ch
34:1 ..., 35:1 ... and the first twelve chapters of Jeremiah
throw much light upon the general character of the Jews in
his day. He began in the eighth y...
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healed by Jehovah, or Jehovah will support. The son of Amon,
and
his successor on the throne of Judah (2 Kings 22:1;
2 Chr.
34:1). His history is contained in 2 Kings 22, 23.
He stands
foremost among all the kings of the line of David
for unswerving
loyalty to Jehovah (23:25). He "did that which was
right in the
sight of the Lord, and wal...
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the Lord burns; the fire of the Lord...
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